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The Unpredictable Wind

By Scott Bader-Saye

May 29, 2019

At lunch today, a student said, “If you are going to talk about life, you have to talk about death.” I think she’s right. Ash Wednesday is one of the days we talk about death. We talk not just with words but with the act of imposition. We are imprinted with the dust that […]

Flip-Flop Season

By Claire Miller Colombo

May 24, 2019

At the end of the movie Sixth Sense, we learn [spoiler alert!] that Bruce Willis’s character, a psychologist who works with a boy who sees ghosts, is himself a ghost. If you’ve seen the movie, you may remember feeling disoriented at this revelation. Everything you thought you knew, you had to flip over, retrace, rethink. […]

A Spirit-Shaped City

By Gabe Colombo

May 9, 2019

Notre-Dame burned, and the people are speaking. The diverse commentary in the media ranges from the conservative-religious – was this an act of God to punish humanity for the erosion of  “traditional” religion? – to the secular – mourning the cathedral as an important historic monument irrespective of its spiritual significance – to the personal […]

The Roaring Lion

By Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

May 1, 2019

My sister Jennifer lived until recently in Poway, the suburb of San Diego where, this past sabbath, one person was killed, three were injured, and all were terrorized, when a 19-year-old fired at worshipers at the Chabad synagogue. Our friend, Doug, is a member of that congregation. The father of the shooter was my nephew’s […]

The Olfactory Sacrament

By Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

Apr 16, 2019

When I was very little, I used to visit my mother’s mother. And my mother’s mother’s mother lived upstairs. Her room was a mysterious place, alluring and a bit forbidding. She was in her mid-90s, of German descent, a faithful Lutheran, a holy woman. What I remember about going up to call on her in […]