the Shabbat rituals. I have always loved the line from author Stephen R. Covey, “I think the most significant work we’ll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.”

If a congregation wants change, it will start not by being concerned with relevance and resources, but with the good life of resonance, seeking for the living Christ where Christ can be found, in the disclosure of personhood, where time is not made to accelerate but becomes full and sacred. Time becomes full and sacred through the continued disclos

Is it possible to maintain a special affection for one piece of land, but to remember in the process to love all lands? That simple question may well be the key to our capacity to get along: for Jews to experience a level of unity as am echad, a united people, and for all humans to expand their capacity to gain strength from diverse perspectives.

The call to get out and worship God in the desert is a call to creative ways of thinking and living that bring new creation to a parched world. If this is to be realized beyond the abstract and lived out in our concrete interactions, then let it begin with Christ in me. Let me begin by asking God to show me where and how I might intentionally inter