Ah, Halloween tomorrow, and a chance for me to preach about it today. I do that every now and then - every fifteen years or so (a sentence a minister gets to use if he or she stays in one place long enough).
Why would I do it ever? Well, it was originally a [...]
We are so alike, you and I.
And we are so different.
We are so alike, we human beings all over the globe.
We are so different from each other.
Is it a good thing, being different?
We all are. The religion we belong to is, too.
In fact, just being human makes us different.
Of course, in a lot [...]
We are in the midst of the Jewish high holy days. Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, is behind us, and the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, lies just ahead.
These are not holidays I was brought up in. And while I have preached about both, hoping to share some of the wisdom and hope they have [...]