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November 2015

November 03, 2015

Compassion and Law Enforcement

What if a city became a laboratory for compassionate practice? What if policing were compassionate?...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

Twixt the Darkness and the Light

For thousands of years we have marked the turning of the seasons, the progression...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Interfaith is a Two-way Street

I choose to act as a member of Women of Faith because I know that...

February 20, 2015

To Those Who Say Interfaith is a Waste of Time

When I hear many people talk about “interfaith” work it seems that their understanding of...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Out of the Dark

"Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole,...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

The Spirit of the Season

Midwinter celebrations have been a part of human life for thousands of years, well back...

November 2014

November 09, 2014

What’s Compassion Got to Do With It?

So, when I first approached the leadership of Cherry Hill Seminary about our becoming an...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

Bringing Them All Back Home

In 2012 the suicide rate among combat veterans reached an all-time high with some 22...

September 04, 2014

Abortion: The Hardest Choice

I'm not going to argue ethics here because I don't feel comfortable telling any woman...

August 2014

August 15, 2014

A 2000-Year Journey in Interfaith

I have just returned from my annual vacation in Pennsylvania where my husband and I...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

One River, Many Wells

When I step into a patient’s room or when I stop to comfort a family...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

The Whole Community

Coming together to benefit children in our community-- not the Pagan community and not any...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

Growing the Interfaith Garden

I view our interfaith work as being a bit like my gardening. Those of us...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

A Thousand Years from Now

Maybe this reality is a hundred years away, maybe a thousand, but I fully believe...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

They’ve Got My Back

Little white country church, a beautiful Sunday afternoon, friends, cookies and punch on the picnic...

October 16, 2013

Interfaith…community

My Compassionate Winston-Salem (CWS) group recently served a wonderful meal to the residents of the...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

The Linguists’ Principle of Charity

So often I see Pagans trying to explain to others who are religiously-conservative just why...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Who’s TRULY Being Compassionate?

Who’s TRULY being compassionate? As a pagan, I am sometimes surprised when I hear a...

July 18, 2013

Interfaith experience within the ‘same’ faith…

We Pagans are not the only ones to experience judgment and condemnation for not being...

July 03, 2013

Journeys: A Monthly Interfaith Breakfast

As a pagan representative of the board, I was delighted when the facilitator of “Interfaith...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

Interfaith work from a Pagan perspective

Last Tuesday night I sat with a group of people that I have come to...