“Teacher, what is the biggest commandment of the law?” When Jesus was asked this question he said: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your [...]
I spend hours of my “public spirituality time” trying to learn how to speak in a vocabulary of the heart that isn’t always so God and Jesus filled, for those whose journey is one of the spirit and of discovery, but whose beliefs do not follow my Western Christian traditional upbringing. I know that I [...]
I knew this one was going to go wrong when I got an email forwarded to me from my mom, who got it from a friend who’d had it forwarded to him, etc. so many times that the indents for the forwarding put the actual text almost completely off the page. Let me mention here [...]
We need prayers and blessings in our lives that celebrate the coming together of two loving people that do not include the terminology for “man and woman” and “husband and wife.” We don’t look to change the absolute sacredness of the holy marriage rite, but to make Holy Matrimony inclusive of all people who seek [...]
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In our troubles, you are our strength. And in our sorrows, our consolation. (alleluia alleluia) The Psalmist reminds us in this verse that the Maker – the Center – is both our go-to for the inspirational hutzpah we need to get through the day, and is also our consoler – our cheerleader – [...]
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