Notes on using Zoom for an intimate family memorial service: what worked, what was awkward, what we learned, and what might help others grieve while we must be apart
Notes on a Zoom Memorial Service
Category Archives: Religion
The stories that stick with us
What do the stories that most deeply inform our lives tell us about religion and how we approach the sacred? What if these don’t line up with formal religion?
Giving Up Running Away For Lent
Two years ago, I gave up trying out church for Lent. That was the last time I’d tried out a church that wasn’t in the very progressive Unitarian Universalist movement. Once again, I’d made it through Advent with a sense that I’d been raised Christian in a majority-Christian culture, and that for better or for […]
When a religious journey takes an unexpected turn
One of my go-to writing haunts on the web is the Interfaith Family Network, where I blog semi-regularly about interfaith (Jewish-Christian) marriage and parenting. I’ve found the space a non-threatening way to do what doesn’t come naturally to me: share my evolving thinking about a topic while my thoughts on it are in-process. Because the organization/website/blog […]
Percival Chubb and the Strays on the Religious Frontier
Yesterday my article at Religion Dispatches about “strays on the religious frontier” was published, and I wanted to add a few follow-up thoughts that didn’t fit into the article. Percival Chubb is a gem of a writer for one interested in religious liberalism; his two main books – Festivals and Plays in Schools and Elsewhere […]
