Author: Michelle Van Loon
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Yes, Seders Are For Christians*
Yes, Seders are for Christians. The asterisk in the title above Last week’s guest opinion piece written by Rabbi Yehiel Poupko and Rabbi David Sandmel entitled “Jesus Didn’t Eat A Seder Meal” was published on the Christianity Today website as a pushback against the appropriation of Passover Seders by a growing number in the Christian community.…
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Passover: One Thing To Try, One Thing To Taste
Passover is largely about Egypt; Easter is largely about Passover. – Rabbi Ismar Schorsch To Try: Each year Jewish families retell and experience anew the Exodus through the Seder. From the Hebrew word meaning “order,” the Seder is a formal festival meal that has an entirely different focus and purpose than any other meal of…
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When A Parent Is “Left Behind”
There has been much written about the exodus of Millennials from the Church. But I haven’t seen much discussion about the effect of that exodus on those they’ve left behind; specifically, the parents who sought to pass on their faith to their children both at home and via involvement with their local church. This was…
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Holy Week: Where “Follow Me” Leads
I started Lent this year with good intentions. But we all know those good intentions can be little more than pavers on the road leading to bad places, right? I wasn’t sure a full social media fast would be do-able for Lent this year, so I decided that I needed to apply some discipline to…
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No Alarm Needed Today
My husband Bill didn’t need to set his alarm for work this morning. He was laid off yesterday. It is the first time he’s been unemployed since the early 1980’s. It’s not entirely unexpected. Things at work have been very, very difficult for months, and several of his colleagues have left the company – either…
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Review: Of Stillness And Storm
My husband and I once had a pastor whose wife had never signed on with her husband’s calling. She married a businessman, not a downwardly-mobile spiritual entrepreneur who had meetings 4 nights a week and dealt with congregational crisis what seemed like 8 nights a week while she was left to function as a single…