I recently heard about a man whose mother had passed away. He’s Jewish and he went to the traditional prayer service at which they say something called the Kaddish. The Kaddish is the prayer recited in memory of the dead. However, the man whose mother had passed said that
I joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program when I was in college. I had a little brother for the final 2 years of my time there. When I was leaving, I gave my “little” (as they call them) a few gifts- one of which was a Bible. I decided to
When my youngest son was 18 years old he asked me a question I wasn’t prepared for. It was a question I hadn’t heard from my oldest son when he was 18 or from my two girls when they were 18 either. The question was this; “Dad do you
I typically officiate several weddings a year. And while I like to think everyone is there to hear me, I know the ceremony is but a 20 minute obstacle to what everyone is really there for. They’re waiting for me to shut up so they can get on to
I’m reading a book called “Everything happens for a reason and other lies I’ve loved”. The title alone is provocative enough but the rest of the book challenges the notion that God is this great cosmic conductor who orchestrates everything that happens both good and bad. The author (seminary
Every year around Halloween there is the annual replaying of scary movies on TV; Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street. These slasher films are part of our collective cultural consciousness. Most of us have seen at least one of these. They’re some of the highest grossing films
When I was in seminary I served as an intern in a church where one of my responsibilities was to work with the high school youth group. A few months after I began, I was pulled into a conflict between two parents and their daughter. They asked me to
One of the Great Hebrew words in scripture comes in the first two verses of the Bible and it is this “Tohu Va bohu”. It’s a little used word that is hard to explain so I’ll give a few examples to see if I can help you get a picture
