To Catch the World
Leaving home happens in physical and metaphysical ways. The leaf turns loose of the branch. The newborn bird flies her nest. The young Rabbi does the same.* Predictable familiarity gives way to the wild call to step out into the world. Having just left my teenage years, I was given the chance to study in […]
Dreaming of Angels
For those of us who follow the traditional Christian year, it’s still Christmas until Epiphany comes next week with the arrival of the Magi. But today’s Gospel story* seems to come out of order— the Magi have already come and gone, leaving danger behind along with their peculiar baby gifts. On the strength of a […]
Into This World – Dec. 25, 2019
“Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, his place is with those others for whom there is […]