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You are what you eat / Behar-Bechukkotai

TASTE OF TORAH   5:13 PM ON SUN MAY 13 2012
Jews have a thing about food, but every ethnic group thinks it has a thing about food. For us, however, food and eati ...

Brian McLaren's visit to us, and some thoughts on the ...

ABIDING SAVIOR   8:01 PM ON THU MAY 10 2012
Brian McLaren came to visit us this past Sunday.  He’s a well known Emergent Church Evangelical speaker and writer ...

Defective or whole? / Parshat Emor

TASTE OF TORAH   4:08 PM ON SUN MAY 6 2012
Everybody’s life is circumscribed in some way or another. None of us can do whatever we want, whenever we want, whe ...

The lie about “lying with a man” / Acharei Mot - ...

TASTE OF TORAH   12:00 PM ON SUN APR 29 2012
I am sick and tired of hearing people pontificate on how same sex marriage will degrade the institution of marria ...

Sermon from April 22, 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   12:54 PM ON MON APR 23 2012
New Life and Resurrection obviously fit with Easter!    The theme totally works!   We can do New L ...

Interpretation: "truth" and consequences / ...

TASTE OF TORAH   9:45 AM ON SUN APR 22 2012
Among those who didn’t need to be attentive in physics class because they know how the universe really works:Pat Robertso ...

Thoughts on Doubting Thomas story!

ABIDING SAVIOR   10:08 AM ON MON APR 16 2012
So, yesterday we had the "Doubting Thomas" story in church. This story does lend itself to looking at the role of doubt ...

Too many trees here - where's the forest? / Shemini

TASTE OF TORAH   12:15 PM ON FRI APR 13 2012
What do Mickey Mantle, John Elway, Kevin Johnson, and Phil Esposito have in common? It’s not their sport. It’s the numb ...

Very interesting article in last Newsweek Mag

ABIDING SAVIOR   11:19 AM ON WED APR 11 2012
Here's a very interesting article in last Newsweek. This is another long article... but if you have the time... provocativ ...

What seems to be important to people as they face the ...

ABIDING SAVIOR   11:06 AM ON WED APR 11 2012
This is one of those deep rubber-meets-the-road sort of reads. I'm sure you'll find it meaningful.My Faith: What people ta ...

A long post today...

ABIDING SAVIOR   10:10 AM ON TUE APR 10 2012
Sorry folks - a long post... but WELL worth the read! I’m Christian, unless you’re gay.By Dan PearceToday I want to w ...

PALM SUNDAY

ABIDING SAVIOR   12:48 PM ON WED APR 4 2012
PALM SUNDAY- Jerusalem was to that time, place and religion as Mecca and the Kabbah is to Islam. It was a place ...

Asking the right questions makes all the difference / ...

TASTE OF TORAH   11:08 AM ON MON APR 2 2012
Have you ever had an MRI? If so, you have Isador Rabi, Nobel laureate in physics, to thank. Rabi, the son of poor immigrant ...

Where are we?

ABIDING SAVIOR   11:20 AM ON TUE MAR 27 2012
Where are we? These past Lenten evenings we’ve been going through the different “seasons”; of life, of faith, o ...

Ingroups, outgroups, and out of bounds / Pesach

TASTE OF TORAH   6:57 PM ON SAT MAR 24 2012
Peter Beinart, in his 3/18/2012 New York Times op-ed calls for a bizarre response to the insidious anti-Israel B.D.S. (Boyc ...

March 22 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   7:21 PM ON THU MAR 22 2012
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Thought for the day 21 march 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   2:30 PM ON WED MAR 21 2012
Sorry it's been so long... time does fly as you prepare for this, do that, have projects to work on,,, etc. Anyway... a ...

Meditation Thursday March 8, 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   9:53 AM ON THU MAR 8 2012
There lies a mystery behind what we see... a mystery that doesn't always reveal it's presence to us in our ordinary lives. ...

Thanks a lot! / Tzav

TASTE OF TORAH   8:03 PM ON WED MAR 7 2012
Charles du Bos (1882-1939), French critic of French and English literature, is credited with saying, “The important thin ...

Whose glass is this anyway? / Vayikra

TASTE OF TORAH   10:18 AM ON WED MAR 7 2012
Ah, the eternal conundrum: Is your glass half full or half empty?Parshat Vayikra and indeed, all of the Book of Leviticus, ...

Have I got a story for you! / Vayakhel-Pikudei

TASTE OF TORAH   10:16 AM ON WED MAR 7 2012
Narratives are composed of details. Lots and lots of details that our brains sort, organize, and combine to produce a narra ...

Tues March 6, 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   12:07 PM ON TUE MAR 6 2012
Lenten Meditation“Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you ...

Monday March 5

ABIDING SAVIOR   8:24 PM ON MON MAR 5 2012
Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, on the shadow-side of self. We all have a shadow-side. the issue is are we dealing with t ...

Tabernacles and paper airplanes / Parshat Ki Tissa

TASTE OF TORAH   4:55 PM ON SUN MAR 4 2012
Cartoonist Al Capp (remember Li’l Abner?) described modern art as “a produce of the untalented, sold by the unprinciple ...

Message for March 2, 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   6:03 PM ON FRI MAR 2 2012
A reminder from a modern day prophet - Oscar Romero“We have never preached violence,except the violence of love,which lef ...

Lenten Message Wed March 1 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   10:48 AM ON WED FEB 29 2012
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'Thank you', that would be sufficient."-- Meister Eckhart ...

Lenten Message Tue Feb 28 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   12:14 PM ON TUE FEB 28 2012
From First United Methodist Church, Madison, WI Tuesday, February 28Posted by Judith Hutchinson on Feb 28, 2012 “Hope.” ...

Lenten Message Monday Feb 27 2012

ABIDING SAVIOR   1:21 PM ON MON FEB 27 2012
Sometimes, even in our world of plenty (stuff and things, and people and activity), we may feel the desolation of drought T ...

Lenten Message

ABIDING SAVIOR   7:27 AM ON SAT FEB 25 2012
As we move through Lent… called to fast, pray, give, focus, among other things… Perhaps the biggest call in our ...

Lenten Message

ABIDING SAVIOR   3:47 PM ON FRI FEB 24 2012
A good message anytime… “How are you tending to the emerging story of your life? From Mark Nepo’s book ...
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