by John D. Pierce | Jan 17, 2023 | Opinion
Every pastor hears it: Just do what one of your predecessors did a few decades ago and all will be well within congregational life. Nope. Yet, somewhere in that row of dusty and successive portraits — likely lining a wall enroute to the sanctuary — is the image of a...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 12, 2022 | Opinion
An insight picked up somewhere many years ago has stayed with me — especially when considering the cruel cross of Jesus which looms on the horizon of our spiritual journey. Societies seek to oppose and eliminate that which is considered below the acceptable standards...
by Fred Guttman | Mar 23, 2021 | Opinion
We have a wonderful family in our congregation wherein the mother is from the Philippines and the father is Jewish. The four boys in the family are being raised as Jews. Last week, the 13-year-old son, whose Bar Mitzvah Torah portion is from Leviticus, revised his...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 15, 2020 | Opinion
It was in Ms. Beverly Postell’s psychology class at Ringgold High School in northwest Georgia that I first learned the concept of “projection.” This psychological defense mechanism was easy to understand. The most common example was that of someone coming home from...
by Monty Self | Apr 14, 2020 | Opinion
Harold Abraham Weill, the chief rabbi of Strasbourg, France, said the majority of the Jewish population in the city was infected with COVID-19. “How many people [in the Jewish community] have been infected? I believe maybe 50%, maybe 60% or 70%,” Weill estimated,...
