Who Can Forgive?
The Guardian reported this remarkable story about forgiveness: Abdollah Hosseinzadeh was stabbed and killed in a street brawl in the autumn of 2007 when he was only 18. He had known his killer, Balal. The two, barely out of their teens at the time, had played football...
Worst Question Ever
Mary came to the garden alone while the dew as still on the roses…or at least something like that. She didn’t come alone but did find herself alone with a person she mistakes for the gardener (thus the idea that there may have been roses). This risen...
Hugging Failure
Was it just coincidence or was it the work of the Spirit that one verse of the Pneuma Divina passage this week was Simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us (Romans 8:5, The Message)? With a guest extolling the value of hugging, it was quite appropriate to be...
The Final Frontier
Do you know the hardest thing about comedy? No, what’s the hardest… Timing …thing about comedy? Timing may not be everything, but without it we would have a hard time understanding much of anything. During the episode this week when the trio...
Not Just a Burning Stick
If you didn’t watch this week’s episode live, you missed this wonderful video of an equally wonderful poem. Take a minute to enjoy it. There is surely a gift in lostness. To go to the places where we discover our size, our limits and our place is a journey...
A Kvetch, a Schlep and a Tweet
In his 2005 book, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods, Michael Vex expresses the view that Yiddish is the language of complaint, rooted in millennia of Jewish exile. “Judaism is defined by exile, and exile without complaint is...
Loud Pipes Save Lives
To be thunderstruck may not involve a flash of lightning or an instantaneous sign from the heavens. In fact, it may not come in a single moment. But when everything comes together just right, well, you just know. And when you know, you know that you know, you know?...
Gotta Serve Somebody
When the story that names you is too small, you need to be freed. But be careful what you ask for, there are multiple forms of freedom. You can have freedom from, but do you have freedom for? Once released from whatever binds you, what are you now free to do? You can...
Where Are You?
So what is so great about the Great Convergence? As a realtor may say…location, location, location. That location may be “little ol’ Omaha” where there is an ecumenism of the highest common denominator, i.e. not a dumbing down of the great...Partners and Promotions
