Life is a Sacred Text

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Life is a Sacred Text is about truth & transformation, with ancient stories serving as mirrors & lights. Collective liberation. Everybody-celebratory. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Ask The Community!

heart, soul and mind mutual aid time

12h ago·2 min read·292 words

Zoom Salon Today!

New Time! (5 et / 2 pt)! Don't miss it!

4d ago·1 min read·144 words

the threat & salvation of the mythical ginger Jews

or: flipping a hateful script, a case study

Jun 11·3 min read·469 words

Mental Snacks

hidden prebiblical books, eclipse times and the stories behind our stories

Jun 4·2 min read·325 words

Rahab: The Master Strategist Behind the Tropes

What everyone misses in the tale of the Canaanite sex worker. Plus! Why *did* Jericho's walls fall?

Jun 1·14 min read·2737 words

a quartet of newer psalms

contemporary language for eternal impulses

May 28·1 min read·159 words

10 Reasons Ice Cream Is Holy

or: Torah + sweet dairy, an investigation

May 21·2 min read·339 words

inspirations towards revelation

sparks to help us find our way in to interconnection, connection, receiving

May 18·11 min read·2020 words

good things

to know, hear, be illuminated by, dink around with and more

May 14·1 min read·13 words

co-create a more possible world

a preview of what's cooking at LiST and beyond

May 10·1 min read·14 words

your questions, addressed

the rabbi takes your queries via video, because why not

May 7·1 min read·13 words

Pharoah + Moses revisit their talks on religion and race

or: A few texts for processing SCOTUS' horrific Voting Rights Act attack

Apr 30·1 min read·22 words

the holy is where you are

how we'll get through this is by filling up on the here and now

Apr 23·1 min read·20 words

Force the Oppressor to make a Lose/Lose Choice

Social Change Toolkit: Dilemma Actions

Apr 20·1 min read·13 words

Ask the Clergy Time!

what's on your mind / heart / soul / nerves these days

Apr 16·1 min read·16 words

for we were... [enslaved? sojourners?] in Egypt

excavating the earliest layers of Exodus' sacred myth

Apr 7·1 min read·15 words

An Ancient Passover Sacrifice

In photos, then and now: 100 years of Samaritan (Israelite-Samaritan) practice

Apr 1·1 min read·15 words

Persevere.

Making change needs consistency, just like everything else

Mar 29·1 min read·9 words

Around the World in 18 Seders

A Global Trot Through Passover Traditions and Haggadah Art

Mar 26·1 min read·15 words

spiritual practices for terrible times

yes, there's a screaming meditation, and I have it here

Mar 19·2 min read·324 words

Conquest Narrative // Good Relation

A powerful take on the Book of Joshua from Daniel Delgado

Mar 16·1 min read·16 words

notes on the creative process

stuff I've figured out over 3 1/2 decades of writing

Mar 12·1 min read·15 words

Be in my next book!

build community and win coolness!!

Mar 9·1 min read·10 words

on this the world endures

sources on making war and peace

Mar 5·1 min read·11 words

the queen's somatic map

exclusive guest excerpt!! AND! BONUS post inside this post!

Feb 26·1 min read·13 words

on the other trafficked girls in Esther

because the girls in the harem matter, too

Feb 26·1 min read·15 words

Moral Injury

Or: Why We Need The Prophets Now, More Than Ever

Feb 24·1 min read·12 words

Ask the Community Time!

You get to talk to one another again, yay

Feb 19·1 min read·13 words

Uncharted Territory

all of us, together, crayon in hand

Feb 5·1 min read·9 words

Blessings and Curses?

making sense of loaded theology

Dec 4·1 min read·8 words

Deuteronomy's Liberation Theology

how it can teach us to expand our vision for tomorrow

Nov 17·1 min read·14 words

textual activism and the ancestral toolbox

the story of the rebellious child shows us how we can face painful texts, our own problems, and the challenges beyond

Oct 20·1 min read·27 words

Care for yourself and others!

Checklist 2.0

Jun 12·1 min read·7 words

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST

keep all your shenanigans in one place

Apr 3·1 min read·11 words