Cowlicks and Banners of Love
What does it look like to call something beloved when everything feels broken?
Compassion and Empathy
Parenting teens when we don’t have the answers: Good, bad, and very bad ideas from Talmud
As we parent teens, we might not have helpful answers, or any answers at all, but we need to show up for their passionate questions.
The Garments We Run Down the Aisle In
I am still descending. Most days I think I’m just now learning where the steps are.
Lone Wolves Need Packs: They Will Find Hate Groups or Healthy Communities
A wolf without a pack is a wolf with a grim future.
Strangers, Neighbors, and Friends
Our greatest challenge may not be disagreement itself, but our diminishing capacity to remain in relationship across it.
A Teacher’s Work
It’s the kind of grace you notice more as you get older, and wish you practiced more often yourself.
The Officer in the Closet: How betraying my Hasidic father’s tradition made me the only one to carry his legacy.
My father’s silence told me there was something else, buried deep inside him, that I could not reach.
Retreating from Our Known World
How long before these breaking news headlines start to break me—or the deeper, real-er version of me?
Be Curious, Not Judgmental: A Theology of Welcome
There are spaces that open their doors and make me feel received, and then there are spaces that open their doors but already have a shape in mind for who I should become once I step inside.