Watch: Final Zoom Session + Future Dates
What Did We Learn Below the Bible Belt? 2 More Reflection Sessions
Dear Friends Below the Bible Belt
The ending of this journey is as bittersweet as every end which also is a new beginning.
Thank you to those who joined me last week for our final Zoom session.
Please watch this video to hear my closing remarks, the group’s meaningful questions and reflectors + two moving poems written by readers like you to mark this meaningful milestone.
Scroll down to read those poems- with grateful heart to Peter, and to Nancy for sharing these words.
What’s next?
Save the Date: Two more Zoom conversations, in September and November, to give more of you time to reflect and share your key takeaways and lingering questions.
Sundays 2pm ET
September 14 2025
November 16 2025
By November I’ll have a detailed plan for the continued learning in 2026, as we’ll continue to explore some of the most critical big ideas from the bible - for these troubling times.
These Zoom sessions will be open and free for ALL subscribers.
A recording of the session will be shared during the following week.
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Meeting ID: 845 5811 3928
Merch matters! Please do take a few minutes to visit the Sabbath Queen Shop
to get your SHINY BIBLE BELT as a way to honor this journey, support the Sulha Peace Movement and wear this labor of love with a wink and style.
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And, poetry:
Finish lines, by Peter Pitzele
For Amichai
Would you, prophet, ever reach the end,
The pilgrimage a discipline
To braid the skein of now and then,
Followed by students, friends, and kin?
And, of course, you could not know
How history would intrude, the news
Of tribal bloodshed, imperial fear,
Savage to your humane heart. The dues
You paid exceeded what you proposed
When you first turned the page.
The daily news as personal as your breath,
Made battle between your hope and rage.
There is no way you could evade
This confrontation with your fate.
Each chapter ended with your prayer,
For this tragedy would not abate.
I listened how your mind and heart
Contended with varying emotion.
I felt compassion all along
And deep respect for your devotion.
Now you reach the final verses;
The wake behind you disappears.
A great sigh and rest will come,
And welcome, too, your private tears.
Poem by Nancy Hannah Torres
When we get together
What shines through is hope
Perhaps that is the purpose of 929
We have lived through the journey
And come to this new explanation
Of where we are going
Each of us has followed
A very different path
But we all end up on the same road
Looking for meaning in
What seems like G-d’s plan
For those of us in Exile
Faithfulness prayer community
And of course history
As we each find or look to ourselves
With a job at a job in a job
As we enter this new Era