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- Resisting the Killing Tides April 13, 2020
- Learning to Pray March 23, 2020
- How I Set Out to “Follow” Jesus… and Found My Way to Shul July 8, 2019
- A Dream of a Holy Economics July 1, 2018
- Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes June 12, 2018
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A Dream of a Holy Economics
(Normally, I don’t post sermon texts, but some have asked for this one. From this morning, July 1, 2018; 1 Kings 17. Seems word gets round. So, here it is.) So, lately, I’ve been thinking about this idea, G-d the economist. … Continue reading
Invocation: November, 2017
There is a spirit, ancient and eternal, within and among us all, holding us, binding us together across time and difference, joining us in an ever-evolving web of interdependent, sacred abiding. For this, let us be grateful. There is a … Continue reading
Remembering and Imagining (Or…Looking Forward From Philadelphia)
When I was growing up in the 1960s, it was a particularly difficult time to be a child discerning a gender-identity different from one’s gender assigned at birth. In a time where everything our culture saw as normal and “just … Continue reading
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The Blinding Light of An Image of God
In our striving, in and through our various faith systems, to create a pervasive, active sense of radical welcome that moves us to a just, compassionate, egalitarian world, a central theme in our framework is this thing we call the … Continue reading
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Tagged image of God, LGBTQ spirituaity, SPIRITUAL FORMATION, spirituality
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Keeping My Eyes Open
(adapted from a journal entry written the day after Passover) It is the day after Pesach—the Passover. It is 4 days after the accident: the thing, the unexpected force, that by all the laws of physics should have torn my … Continue reading
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Getting Dusty with Jacob
An ancient wisdom asserts that the whole universe is in the Torah, we just have to keep turning it to see it more fully. I believe this to be true—even as a transgender person of faith, even in light of the many ways our sacred texts have been used to exclude trans and LGBQ people. Perhaps, it is precisely because of the hurt arising from the misuse of scripture that I have come to hear refrains of our diverse human conditions sounding forth from Biblical narratives. Continue reading
When Shelter Fails
There is an old Celtic wisdom which asserts that it is in the shelter of one another that the people live. This is a layered truth—not merely that we exist within and are surrounded by the community of others, but … Continue reading
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On The Down-Side of the Up-Side of Passing
“As human beings, we all want happiness, peace and release from suffering.” His Holiness The Dalai Lama Few of us would argue the idea that at the core of all our longing and striving is a desire for happiness and … Continue reading
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Tagged Passing as FTM, TRANS ISSUES, Transsexual Passing
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Passing By
“Be You As Passersby…” … Continue reading
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