Sublime

You’ll also see in these pages hints at the intersection of ancient Jewish wisdom and neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology.

Preservationist

A congregation becomes depressed when its identity continues to rest on its resources instead of its relationships.

the world responds to us the way it responded to Him.

who or what is really endangered? Our real, spiritual self can never be threatened because it can never die. Our physical well-being is not endangered by words or opinions, no matter how hostile. The threat we perceive is thus against our ego, to which we are as attached as to our bodies. Most easily threatened is the mask of the ego, a fragile ide

should be part of the tool kit of every church deacon and counselor.

sacred companionship.

As a crisis deepens into impasse, there is a return of the repressed. Ancestors and demons come back to haunt, and the crisis may call on parts of ourselves that we have left behind.

of Jesus Christ).