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To Be Moved or Not to Be Moved

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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious person's attitude toward history and nature. ~ Abraham Heschel My original passion for the writings (not to mention the life) of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on whose works I wrote Read more [...]

Why I Do What I Do — An Advent Reflection

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E-mman-u-el  [ ih-man-yoo-uhl ] from Hebrew ʿimmānū'ēl “God is with us” I was listening the other day to an interview with Chris Herren who is in his mid-forties. He’s a humble, insightful, and articulate man. And he’s doing such Read more [...]

Second Friday of Lent — Gideon’s Bible, My Unsung Hero, and the Practice of Hope as an Act of Resistance

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One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world.  ~ Abraham Heschel I confess to a wee bit of eye-rolling in response to the GBS otherwise known as The Gideon's Bible Syndrome. Most of you who have spent time pilfering hotel bathrooms Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 5. Joy

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Suppose your spiritual life was a ball team. Who would be your starting five? CLICK on any of the five below. 1. LOVE 2. WONDER 3. GRATEFULNESS 4. COMPASSION 5. JOY    There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy. ~ Paul Rudnick Your Read more [...]

Find Your Own Calcutta ~ Two Life-Lines:

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Today's Life-Lines are a follow-up to my post on June 10, 2022, on COMPASSION. I link compassion immediately with intimacy. Compassion is the ability to vitally imagine what it is like to be an other, the force that makes a bridge from the island of Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 4. Compassion

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Suppose your spiritual life was a ball team. Who would be your starting five? Remember this: All suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered it first. ~ Meister Eckhart The love of our neighbor in all its Read more [...]

The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

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Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? No. 2

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 PART 2 of 2 You have to develop your imagination to the point that permits sympathy to happen. You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours or the lives of your loved ones or the lives of your neighbors. You have to have at least enough Read more [...]