Category: Blog

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Through This Present Darkness

Rather than a dramatic epiphany, I’ve been reminded recently of the slow illumination at daybreak that gives you just enough light to make your way.

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The Flash, 1962

I asked myself if I would have made different decisions and taken different actions than those my parents took in moving us to the suburbs.

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Can These Bones Live?

Transplant team members will get emails announcing that so-and-so is in the operating room with Dr. Wonderful receiving their long-awaited heart/lungs/kidney/liver.

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Fall Religious Reality TV Round Up

Though it might be artificial, manufactured, and overproduced, reality television can still offer a lens into religious belief and religious practice, and like many other

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On Creeds and Confessions I

You can’t dismiss creeds and confessions because of their “politics.” They typically emerge out of crises which typically have a political dimension.

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It’s Not About the Fish

“Well Chad, I’ve never really thought about that before,” was the response to a question I asked the late and dear Chana Safrai during my

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A Different Kind of Veteran

Fred made history when he disobeyed orders to report for detention because he believed his constitutional rights were being violated.

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A Prayer for Veterans Day

We pray for a time when peace will reign and swords become plowshares once more, that war be known only in history books.

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