Active Hope: a Rosh Hashanah Sermon

What are you afraid of?  What keeps you up at night?  Is it something immediate?  At work or school?  With your family?  Is it money or health?  What about the global fears?  The international rise of fascism and the future of democracy?  The pressure cooker of our culture and the hazards of our new technologies? …

Opening Ourselves to Rest

I don’t know about you but I remember as a kid longing for summer to start.  We would joyfully hurl ourselves into freedom on the last day of school.  By upper elementary/middle school that would include the defiant singing, chanting really, of Pink Floyd’s “We don’t need no education…”  It was true liberation.  One of…