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- May 22, 2023
Thirty-five years ago this past week I graduated from Columbia Business School and was about to start a new job at Memorial Sloan Kettering….

- May 15, 2023
Yesterday we looked at the response of the disciples who had just spent the night in jail for preaching about the resurrection of Jesus…

- May 8, 2023
In the book The Body Keeps the Score, there is one quote that summarizes the human need for connection: “’Being able to feel safe…

- May 1, 2023
Something happened on the day of Pentecost that had never happened before. Something so significant happened that day that it ushered in a new…

- April 24, 2023
The dawn of the Christian church as we know it begins with a crucial period of 40 days. During these 40 days that Luke…

- April 17, 2023
One week ago, on Easter Monday, we were reminded that the hope of the resurrection celebrated twenty-four hours earlier can be slippery, as reports…

- April 10, 2023
Every week leading up to Easter I re-read this 2017 obituary of the children’s author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal who died tragically of…

- April 6, 2023
We are now in Holy Week, a season of tragedy and salvation. We celebrate a lowly carpenter’s son who was killed for claiming to…

- March 27, 2023
Religion can be a dangerous thing. The religious leaders of first-century Israel had taken their expression of religion so far from God’s intention that…