
Spirituality & Faith |
September 14, 2021
I Found Everything I Need For Yom Kippur In One Episode Of Ted Lasso
How one episode of Ted Lasso helped me find ways to make Yom Kippur more meaningful this year. ...
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Spirituality & Faith |
September 02, 2021
Covid Has Made Our Garden Shul A Vibrant Gathering Place Yet Again
A garden shul created to service the medically vulnerable becomes useful once again....
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Another Way Of Looking At Things, Compassion and Empathy, Longform, Spirituality & Faith, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized |
August 27, 2021
Testing…1,2,3
Who is tested?...
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For Jews, whatever is happening now is also connected to the past; the way we process our lives is always filled with shadows and ghosts of what happened earlier.
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Breaking False Dichotomies, Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy, Hold Dualities Together, Longform, Longform, News & Politics, Spirituality & Faith, Uncategorized |
July 15, 2021
Bully Pulpits and Pulpit Bullies
When President Teddy Roosevelt coined the term “Bully Pulpit,” the term “bully” meant “outstanding” or “optimal,” not a pulpit from which one could use their office to bully their audience. New data from Pew Research indicates that a rather high percentage of American Christian religious leaders could take a lesson from the former president when it comes to how they use their own pulpits when addressing political issues. Pastors Often Discussed Election, Pandemic and Racism in Fall of 2020 The polling results, based on the content of sermons offered from the pulpits......
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Another Way Of Looking At Things, Breaking False Dichotomies, Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy, Inspiring Story, Longform, Longform, Spirituality & Faith, Uncategorized |
July 09, 2021
Leadership Lessons and Serving the Servers in The Holy Land
Also by Rabbi Joshua Stanton You are standing in Bethlehem’s Manger Square, the Church of the Nativity looms before you, and you feel like the kid in the Disneyland commercial who says, “I’ve been waiting my whole life to see you.” You are a Christian leader standing in the Western Wall Plaza and discover that you now understand more fully how and why so many Jews attach so deeply to this one spot in particular and to Israel in general, even as you also discover that you, as a Christian, may still feel......
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Come what may, I will continue to rock my Jewish identity at my neck, determined never to hide who I am....
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Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Historic Profiles, Inspiring Story, Longform, Longform, Spirituality & Faith, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized |
June 30, 2021
Tears on the Digital Road to Jerusalem
“If a picture paints a thousand words, then an experience paints 10,000.” “Stand where He stood. Walk where He walked. Discover it for yourself.” When we bring rising Christian leaders on pilgrimage to Israel, we emphasize that there is nothing like seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling the complicated, beautiful, Holy Land that birthed their tradition and ours. Born out of necessity amid the pandemic, we began to experiment with digital pilgrimages to see if they could feel every bit as real as those that happened in person. We knew from the......
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Another Way Of Looking At Things, Daily Life, Historic Profiles, Longform, Spirituality & Faith, Uncategorized, Wisdom Daily News |
June 10, 2021
Rebellion for the Greater Good
I’ve always had a soft spot for Korach...
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