Our Moral Duty – June 10, 2022

“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.” ―Etty Hillesum, “29 September”, in An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943 and […]

Leadership – Mar. 7, 2022

“It is not enough for the priests and ministers of the future to be moral people, well trained, eager to help their fellow humans, and able to respond creatively to the burning issues of their time. All of that is very valuable and important, but it’s not the heart of Christian leadership. The central question […]

Not in Bondage – Sep. 28, 2021

“We cannot literally go back in time and undo what we did. And yet, repentance is precisely that process by which we can — in the moral realm, if not in the physical realm — we can go back to the deed, we can find that part of ourselves that led to doing the transgression, […]