This article is the first in a series exploring spiritual entrepreneurship and personal and organizational resilience.
I am a church planter. This is often what I will tell people I meet on the streets of Manhattan when they ask why I am here in New York City. Church planter? I explain that my family and I moved here from Dallas, Texas, to start a new church in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
Last year, as we prepared for High Holidays as a community, with our private and communal woes, we thought we knew the contours of the year ahead. We found out soon enough that we were wrong.
Roses, Thorns, and Buds
One of the many glues that binds our family together is our love of storytelling. We rarely miss opportunities to replay our highlights (and lowlights), reveling in the snowball effect as the stories gain meaning, matter, and momentum with each retelling.
We fight for attention. We fight for resources. But perhaps we fight most over our own sense of legitimacy – that we belong, deserve a good … Continue Reading
The Torah doesn’t spend so much time on why God specifically picked Abraham to spread God’s message.
“What a dumb sign”, I thought. And then I thought some more.
The translation that “God was cross with me” seems most thoughtful and sensitive to the resonance between Hebrew and English.
There are some dark times that we commemorate in a ceremony with the reading of names. And there are some … Continue Reading
