faith
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A PERPLEXING QUESTION
Perhaps I have been asking the wrong question. Ben Azzi used to say: “Despise no man and consider nothing impossible for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is nothing that does not have its… Continue reading
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A PERSONAL MESSAGE
Sun Tzu, Sikong Shu, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde A little more than a week ago, I received an angry note telling me that I am a good writer who says nothing unless I am willing… Continue reading
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SKATING ON A RAZOR’S EDGE
This morning, I awoke feeling as if I were skating on a razor’s edge to the Rolling Stone’s “Sympathy for the Devil.” I distinctly recall one of the last conversations with my father. This took place on an April afternoon… Continue reading
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PURIM: ESTHER IN TRUMPLAND
Purim is a holiday of joy and remembrance. There is a carnival spirit to the holiday celebration of the triumph of Mordecai and Esther in thwarting King Ahasuerus’s advisor Haman’s scheme to exterminate all the Jews in the Persian empire.… Continue reading
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