Yesterday, I Marched

June 1, 2020

Yesterday, I marched. It was a small, peaceful march in downtown Sarasota, Florida. The organizers and nearly all of the …

Something Greater Than Ourselves

November 23, 2019

I have a friend who is a Presbyterian minister, who asked me this week if I could tell him about …

September 7, 2019

“You shall not judge unfairly… Justice, justice you shall pursue.” If I was asked to sum up the Torah in ten …

August 17, 2018

I usually don’t give sermons about politics. I have been known to call out behaviors that I find objectionable, but …

August 16, 2018

God doesn’t mince words when it comes to doing the right thing… although the Torah does sometimes use repetition to …

June 21, 2018

“Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted,” Stephen Hawking once said. “Things can get out of a black …

June 20, 2018

I have never paid attention to Juneteenth. It was someone else’s holiday. And yet this year I am acutely aware, …

August 25, 2017

Justice, justice, you shall pursue.* The Bible rarely repeats itself. So when the word justice appears twice in a single …