Sun. Dec. 2, 2012

Last night I read the d'var Torah that Velveteen Rabbi offered that morning at her shul on this week's parsha, "Vayishlach."

She talks about Jacob wrestling with the angel and says:Having received a new name, Jacob bestows a new name: he names that place, that bend in the river, Peni'el, literally "the face of God," saying, "For ( Read more... )

Ari and I were talking about the American Baptist Churches and our experiences therewith, which led me to checking whether the Baptist church I grew up near is ABC (it is).

Browsing its website, one of their Mission activities is Young Life. Which I had some exposure to as an adolescent and think of as being fairly generic apolitical but also ( Read more... )