The Jewish festival that usual falls in December is around the corner. Hanukkah or the Festival of Light is a small holiday but a beautiful one… full of flickering candles, miracles, presents, dreidles (game for children), potato pancakes, jelly-filled doughnuts, and wonder. The streets of Jerusalem are lit with Hanukiahs or nine-branched candlesticks for the celebration…
Category: Culture
Freedom Tastes Like Courage
Today freedom will taste like turkey, dressing, and pumpkin pie as we lift our forks in thanksgiving. We salute love of country, family, and friends. But at some point in history the liberty that America enjoys tasted like sacrifice, heartwrenching sacrifice… I am thinking about a couple of things this morning. One is the Mayflower and the…
Entering Twilight Zone
As a teenager, I sat up late a few times with my parents to watch “Twilight Zone.” Creative and offbeat, the television series hit a chord with many viewers. Twilight Zone was that weird place where life wasn’t quite right. Up seemed like down, and right and wrong got twisted. People did weird things, and life careened…
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Soul Pancake
Rainn Wilson who plays Dwight Schrute on the popular and award-winning series The Office has created a very interesting website, Soul Pancake, to tackle “life’s big questions.” The website connects spirituality and creativity and comes up with “spiritivity.” Rainn, who is a follower of the Baha’i religion, says he wants to “de-lameify” questions about God…
‘Make Love not War’
Growing up in the sixties, “Make love not war,” was a common sentiment. It was more than a slogan. It became a belief system. And it sounded so free thinking, cutting edge, and benevolent all at once. Opposing war–the Vietnam war to be exact–was popular at the time. So those who spoke out or demonstrated…
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gross darkness hovers hurting humankind believes that God is a foe
‘Heigh-Ho! Heigh Ho! …Off to Work I Go…’
Well, I am back in saddle here in the states which means up early and off to work at the office. With all the unemployment and people working in crummy jobs, I am so very thankful to have a place to work that I love. In that job, I feel a calling and sense of…
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