God
Worship for Agnostics: Building a Personal Relationship with a Nonpersonal God
They envisioned you in an abundance of metaphors. You are one in all of those images. Shir Hakavod...
Process Theology and Seeing the Divine in the Other: A Reading of Brad Artson and Emmanuel Levinas
We find the divine in the face of the other. Everything is interrelated, including God.
The Origins of Creativity: A Religious Perspective
God is a process at work in the universe, within and among us, that makes for the fulfillment of our human potential.
Where Is God? A Jewish Approach to Death
Where was God when I was run over by the train? God was there when the nurses treated me with kindness as I slowly recovered from the pain, when my broad community visited me in the hospital.
A Path Back to Jewish Living
I experienced the God I could believe in — One who inhered in the divinity of human striving here on earth.
God Is the Space Between Us
God is the space between the one who needs and the one who is needed.
Divine Justice
Faith in a God who is not personal and does not intervene supernaturally animates our sense of the beauty and sanctity of the world. It also enables us to maintain faith and equanimity in the face of tragedy.
God Cafes
In our culture, talking about our experience of God/the Divine or our relationship with God/the Divine is uncommon and even countercultural. Doing so often satisfies a deep need.
God’s Presence in All Things
A description of one individual’s experience that the whole world is filled with God’s glory.
Cleaving to God: A Jewish Way of Prayer
Rabbi Shefa Gold describes the practice of devekut, the continual remembrance of God that leads us past the edge of what can be expressed through words.
Beyond the Kingdom: Transforming God Imagery
A brilliant homily for Rosh Hashanah that queers the biblical texts and suggests that there are many allusions in the Bible to the ambiguous, nonbinary gender identity of God.
Jewish Spiritual Direction: Fundamental Assumptions
Our view of reality can be transformed when we ask, “Where is God/the Holy in this?” and “What is the invitation/opportunity at this moment?” Gradually, we can build a relationship with what is beyond our ability to conceive.
Voice, Water, Place: New/Old Ways of Understanding God
We are heir to a rich assortment of metaphors for God that may resonate more powerfully than the High Holy Day images of king and judge.
God
Nothing in Jewish history has evolved more frequently or more radically than the ways we describe God. Here we continue the ongoing Jewish project of describing that which is beyond description.
Some Call It God
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