Why I don’t pray like I use to, Part 1
In a behavioral health unit group can refer to any scheduled meeting with doctors, therapists, chaplains, and even dogs. We patients can’t be bothered with more descriptive titles, so group suffices. I […]
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Job the Patient
If Shir HaShirim is the most problematic book in the Bible, then Job is the most enigmatic. Much of the difficulty in understanding the message of Job is identifying the […]
When My Daddy Lost His Happy
In “Awakenings” (1990), Robin Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy physician who’s hired in a Bronx hospital to take care of catatonic patients. His patients survived an epidemic of […]
The Longest Night: A Homily
The following is a homily I delivered Dec. 21, 2015 as part of Green Street United Methodist Church‘s “The Longest Night: A Service of Hope & Remembrance.” This service was an opportunity for […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 