Tag: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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How to Be: Thoughts about Guns and the Value of Life
I made a mistake yesterday. While waiting to catch my flight home from a board meeting, I joined a debate about gun control on a friend’s Facebook thread. I don’t typically participate in such debates via social media. Our emboldened rhetoric behind the anonymity of the computer screen is, I believe, problematic. But I was […]
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The Artist and the Art: A Theological Relationship
Sometimes, when I feel creatively dry, I venture over to our college’s art gallery in search of inspiration. Yesterday morning I made this excursion with Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Essential Writings tucked under my arm. Upon entering the gallery I paused first to scan through the binder that held the resumes and statements of the artists. […]
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I find you spiritually attractive.
I recently told a male rabbi about my age that I find him spiritually attractive. Actually, I didn’t tell him. I posted it to his Facebook page. Immediately before adding this message to his feed, though, I hesitated over the following inner monologue: Is this creepy? Am I over-complimenting? Will this be misconstrued as some […]
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Heschel’s Words
I am grateful for my husband who puts words like these in my hands when I am writing a sermon. How does one adequately speak of God? Ask Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. “God is a challenge rather than a notion. We do not think Him; we are stirred by Him. We can never describe Him; […]
Teri McDowell Ott 