Tag Archives: God

‘Remember Now Your Creator’ – The Challenging Dichotomy of Faith and Reason

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

Last night, at my school’s back-to-school-night for parents, I delivered my “senior sermon.” Each senior at Milken writes and delivers a sermon at some point during his or her final year at the school. Here is mine, on the challenge … Continue reading →

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Leaving God at the Door – Why Michele Bachmann Needs to Reaffirm Kennedy’s Promise

Posted on September 4, 2011 by

As featured on the Huffington Post: With Elai Shine First, she said it was a joke. Now, she’s saying it was a metaphor. One thing is clear: Michele Bachmann thinks that hurricanes happen because of welfare. Last week, shortly after … Continue reading →

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Camaraderie Out of Extremity – Gratitude in the Wake of the bin Laden Assassination

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

Last night, I was flying with my family back from Portland to Los Angeles. As we strapped ourselves into our seats and powered down our cell phones, a muffled voice came over the plane’s speaker system. “This is your captain … Continue reading →

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Blind Zionism

Posted on August 15, 2010 by

On a soaring balmy mountaintop at the very top of the Galilee, a graying older man with a white goatee stands before an crowd of enraptured teenagers. Behind him, almost like a painting, is the motionless Lebanese village of Adaisseh. The … Continue reading →

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God?

Posted on August 10, 2010 by

I mentioned yesterday that I am going to start posting journal entries that I wrote in Poland and start discussing Israel. Right now, I am going to post the last thing I wrote in Poland; a theological reflection on the … Continue reading →

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