I’m delighted to share the video of yesterday’s launch of The Intercessor on Zoom. I was in conversation with Rabbi Diane Elliot, read several excerpts, and responded to questions and comments from those who attended. It was fun, especially if you like deep questions about real challenges as much as I do, and I was …
The public Zoom launch of my new book, The Intercessor, is on Wednesday, 29 October, at 5:30 pm ET/4:30 pm CT/3:30 pm MT/2:30 pm PT. On the launch I’ll be in dialogue with Rabbi Diane Elliot, I’ll read excerpts from the book, and we’ll leave plenty of time for questions and discussion. The conversations so …
A great soul passed this morning. Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow, scholar, activist, teacher, spiritual leader, and so much more celebrated his 92nd birthday on October 12th with a Zoom hosted by The Shalom Center, the organization he founded in 1983 and led until last year. The Zoom was also the occasion for sharing the two …
It makes me so happy to invite you to the official Launch of my new book, The Intercessor. On Wednesday, 29 October at 5:30 pm Eastern, 4:30 Central, 3:30 Mountain, and 2:30 Pacific, I’ll be joined by the wonderful Rabbi Diane Elliot. Here’s a little bit about Diane: As a rabbi and teacher, a Registered …
I have a thing for old black and white movies. Especially in anxious times, they slow me down and calm me. I think it has to do with telling a single story rather than flooding viewers with a barrage of plotlines, images, and settings. It almost feels as if someone is reading to me. I …
I recently completed a new painting after a few months’ hiatus while I finished a book I hope will be published soon. As with many of my paintings, it was inspired by a text that struck me with great force, a teaching by the 18th century Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky, a disciple of the Baal …
Twenty years ago, my friend Daniel Burstyn introduced me to an exercise created for Passover, the Jewish holiday which this year begins on the evening of 12 April. The holiday commemorates the exodus from slavery in Egypt (“Mitzrayim” in Hebrew, which also means “straits” or “narrow places”). The tradition is to retell the story as …
I’ve had the same conversation with many friends in the last few days: what is wrong with the Democrats? Why aren’t they responding to the Trump-Musk emergency with the speed and energy required to stop them from (to use Steve Bannon’s repugnant language) “flooding the zone with shit” at “muzzle velocity” and drowning the body …
Last week I completed a painting I’ve been working on for many weeks. Its name comes from the text written on its face: “Over every blade of grass an angel hovers, whispering, ‘Grow, grow.’” This isn’t even close to an exact translation of the Talmudic text from Bereshit Rabbah 10.6 on which it is based, …
NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 46th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture of Possibility.” It will be available starting 15 November 2024. You can find it and all episodes at Stitcher, iTunes, and wherever you get your podcasts, along with miaaw.net‘s other podcasts by Owen Kelly, Sophie …