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Can We Be a Friend to All the Parts of Ourselves?

Hi friends, it’s good to be with you today. In many ways, it’s been a particularly rich week in my life as a pastor in this community. I don’t take for granted the ways that you welcome me into important parts of your lives, even listening to me now as I try to help us connect our old sacred texts …

Yochi Fischer and Loaay Wattad — On Seeing the Trauma of the Other

This episode emerged from a private gathering in The Hague in the fall of 2024 with a small group of people who live in Israel — both Jewish and Palestinian, Jews and Palestinians who continue to share life. We’re pleased to invite you now to overhear this particular conversation, with the permissi…

What does Judaism mean to you. Shai Held says it's this simple: Love!

What does Judaism mean to you. Shai Held says it's this simple: Love!

Shai Held - Judaism is About Love

Episode 69 of What Gives?—the Jewish philanthropy podcast from Jewish Funders Network, hosted by JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny. In this episode, we speak with Shai Held, President and Dean of the Hadar Institute and author of the new book Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewis…

God Has No Attributes: The Theology of Maimonides

Can we really describe God—or does every word fall short? In this episode, Rabbis Shai Held and Jason Rubenstein explore the bold theology of Maimonides, who argued that the only true way to speak about God… is not to speak at all. Together they unpack why saying “God is loving” might actually be m…

Whom Does Your God Love? A Jewish Case for the Stranger. With Shai Held

What does the Torah actually say about immigrants — and what does it demand of us? Rabbi Jeff Salkin sits down with one of the Jewish world's leading theologians, Rabbi Shai Held, to explore the Bible's most repeated commandment: love the ger — the stranger, the sojourner, the immigrant. Held argu…

Shai Held — On Love, and Judaism

From Krista: I'm on record bemoaning across the years that “love” is the most watered-down word in the English language. I know that invoking love feels very soft for our hard realms of politics and war. Yet it is an enduring truth that love is the only force as powerful in a human body as fear. A…

The Good Shepherd Lays Down His Life and So Do We | #1624

Easter, 4th Sunday (A) Happy Good Shepherd Sunday, which could have also been called "Sheep Gate Sunday." Today is also the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. I think we often associate the word "vocation" with recruiting people to be priests and nuns. But the first vocation, the first "call" we re…

Is the Old Testament Worth Reading?

On Thursday, February 19, 2026, Dr. Ellen Davis gave a public lecture at Christian Study Center. Speaker Bio:  Dr. Davis is an Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. She is an established author who focuses her research on the effects of b…

Babel: For the Bible Curious. Episode 11.

What if the Tower of Babel isn’t about a skyscraper at all, or trying to ‘reach God,’ but about language, thought and power? We begin our series with the strange little story - consisting of only nine verses- situated between the Noah episode and the great patriarch Abraham — and why it might be on…