Sitemap - 2024 - Below the Bible Belt
Are Your years the years of humans?
Job’s Intergenerational Trauma
Hanukkah Gift to Job: Let There be Light
Job+Jesus+Mythic Triads = The Gift of Friendship on This Holy Day
May Your Tent be Peace: When Einstein Meets Job
"Can humans be more pure than the Creator?"
Are We Failing Job and Abraham's Tests?
Queen Mother's Parting Pearls of Wisdom
World Goes Wild Without a Vision
Next Zoom Conversation: POSTPONED
My Father's Hidden Homage to the Sabbath Queen
Face to Face is our Moral Obligation
Respond to fools in accord with their folly
The mind of kings is unfathomable
Lazy Lying or a Lion in the Streets?
Wisdom’s Take on Late Night Drinking
Charity in Secret Saves from Wrath
“the light of a candle or that of a blazing sun”
Attitude of Gratitude: Wisdom's Tips for Life
The House that Wisdom Built - for Her
Watch: Who is She Who is Wisdom?
"To Reclaim Large Areas of Peace in Ourselves"
חוֹשֵׂ֣ךְ שִׁ֭בְטוֹ שׂוֹנֵ֣א בְנ֑וֹ Spare rod, spoil kid??
11/21 Conversation on Who is Wisdom
The Bridal Snake: Can Charitable Living Make You Immortal??
Wisdom Who? Our Next Zoom Conversation on 11/21
Go Grovel? Radical Wisdom for Pursuing Peace
Watch: Psalms of Peace Zoom Recording
Reassuring Whisper from the Tree of Life
With Every Breath We Sing our Soul
She Says: Goodbye Psalms, Hello Proverbs
unsayable saying that none can unsay
Ashrei: The Curious History of Praising
when there will be no screaming in our streets
Join me online: PSLAM for PEACE
Release My Soul From Narrowness
Your Hand Like a Hut Above my Head
Musical Plant Medicine to Heal our Pains
Because of the Rivers of Babylon
This is How we Bless Each Other
15 Songs that Saved the World (and maybe will again?)
Your Vigil Should Not be in Vain
“the trap broke, we flew free”
Secret of the 15 Songs of the Steps/Part 1
Female Gaze Frees both Maid & her Mistress
“For the sake of all that lives and is"
Help will Come from What is Not
What My Mother Said to the Sea
"This is marvelous in our sight"
Blessing Those Who Stand With Us
Why Dante leaves the Barbarians Behind
How to Praise What's Good & also Protest Evil?
She Who Gets the Seat of Honor
Was this Right Side of History Wrong?
David's Strange Satanic Verses
David Meets Orpheus in the Gaza Synagogue
A Psalm for Surviving a Shipwreck
The land is polluted with bloodguilt
Why Sugarcoat our Painful Past?
The Birth of Broken Hallelujah
Remember We Are Also Sacred Soil
Why We Still Bow to the Divine Footstool
Just Sowing (our Seeds of Light)
What's the New Songs for the Future World?
How to Soften Stubborn Hearts?
What's the Song Your Soul Needs Now?
Did the Sabbath Compose Her Own Poem?
The Noon Demon of The Ninth of Av
How Much Longer This Suffering?
We Must Build this World from Love
Tough Truth & Love on this Shabbat of Vision
How to Respond to The Urge for Revenge?
Why Were Israel's First War Planes named 'Tempest' and 'Storm'?
How Long Will You Judge Perversely?
Grapevine That Grows From River to Sea
Our Tribal Traumas: Reveal to Heal
All Night You Hold My Eyelids Open
“The Assyrians: A Special Song”
Raise Your Cup: To Death or Life?
Words With Which We'll Dance Again
“we are drained of every very last tear”
The Only God That's Good is Global
He Rides the Clouds: The Oldest Psalm?
Shiviti: The Secret of Psalm 67 as Controversial Ritual Art
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You - Kinder?
Soul as parched as thirsty land
A Snail & A Dove to the Rescue
the mute dove of distant places
Watch: Who DID Write these Psalms?
Why Stories Matter More this Summer Solstice
"The ignorant say it's all accidental"
Thriving Olive Tree: A Psalm for Juneteenth
Believe Bathsheba's Broken Heart
Do We Not All Share One Father?
Sing a New Global Song Together
Who is The Queen of Gold Within?
Ancestral Lessons for Living and Dying
Rescheduled Monthly Zoom Meeting
The Protest Hidden in the Psalms
Deer, God: The Art of Yearning
No human endures any longer than a breath.
Who are the Ones Who Sing Way Down Below?
Tyrant, Like Trees, Will Topple
The Innocent Should Not be Starving
Counting Jews (the prohibition)
Open the Gates of Humility and Healing
Watch: Secrets of the Psalm Most Popular
Less Alone, through the Valleys.
A Seat at the Table: The Secret Solace of Psalm 23
Why Suffering? Jesus, Queen Esther & King David Debate the Dawn
'Sovereignty Shines through Your power'
Fathers' Faith for Troubled Times
Look Up! The Sky's Our Storyteller
"You Have Wings of Spirit. Rise Up"
“Did some bird flap its wings?" Taylor Swift + Psalm 17
"I have come to the center of the universe"
Wean from the Past, to Sing in the Present
How long will You hide Your face?
Words that Heal, Refined like Silver
4 Cups of Vengeance and/or Redemption?
"May mortals tyrannize no more.”
“What a piece of work is human"?
"You watch me bleed and blossom"
We Need, Right Now, More Bedtime Prayers
“Read a Chapter Every Night” - My Grandmother’s Gift
King on the Run from His Own Son: A Poem.
Love You to Pieces! (and other paradoxical metaphors)
The Last and Longest Lasting Prophet
Why is the Altar Wet with Wives' Tears?
Turning off the Prophets' Road
Was the Last Prophet a Protest Playwright?
New Water at the End of the World
Who Dismantled Patriarchal Prophecy?
Public Grief of Epic Proportions
Follow the Money: Thirty Silver Coins
From Prophets to Poets - Ready for the Pslams?!
Four Famous last words? Thurman on Jesus + King David for Good Friday
River, Sea, and Eternal Combat Myth
Why Does the Messiah Ride a Donkey?
When Jerusalem's Children Will Play Together in Peace
Must We Keep Weeping for the Past?
Who Will Wear the Second Crown?
The Scrolls of Secrets: Esther meets Zechariah
They Tried but Failed to Silence the Goddess.
Satan and the Stone of Seven Eyes
Flee! You Who Dwells with Babylon’s Daughter
That Night I Saw a Rider on a Red Horse
Holy Hilltop Temple Debate, Continued.
This Will be The Place of Peace?
Is it Time to Build the Temple Yet??
Is One Global Language Good or Bad?
Was Shoah Day Predicted by This Prophet?
We Must Reclaim the Prophetic Moral Voice
When the Lions of Judah Will Roar Again, in Jamaica & Jerusalem
Martin Luther's Revelation, Inspired by the Prophet Habakkuk
How Much Longer This Violence???!
"Nobody Left to Comfort in the Rubble"
We Must Reclaim the Prophetic Moral Voice
How We Love to Hate the Prophets
The Burden of Being the Bad Guys
Micah's Recipe for Good Life Goes Viral
Hurl our Hurts Into the Sea to be Forgiven?
Micah, Jesus & the Seven Shepherds
Micah, Jonah and Margaret Mead
"Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins"?
“They covet people's lands and steal them”
When the Prophet learns to Love
A Feminist-Palestinian Reading of Jonah
Inside or Outside the Whale? Orwell and Rushdie Read Jonah
Runaway Seer from the Fictional City of Sin
Can These Twin Rivals Ever Reconcile?
Buber, Amos and the BiNational Vision of Healing and Hope
Famine for The Feast of both Body & Soul
Why Amos Still Matters Today to the Pursuit of Peace?
When Amos met Cinderella & Theodore Herzl
Hush! Don’t Dare Name the Divine Mid Disaster
“Somehow the preacher must be an Amos”
Beat your plowshares into swords??
Everybody Will be Prophets One Day
Tear Your Heart Not Your Clothing
Join me on Feb. 1 for our Next Monthly Zoom Conversation
Imagine: Not just Us but All of Us.
Why is the Fig Miserable? Welcome to Joel's World.
Like a Dew Drop on a Rose Petal
Israel:Born to Fight AND Evolve?
Mommy Dearest? Iron Age Theology for the Digital Age
"The prophet is a person, not a microphone."
Hosea the Meshuggeneh: Prophecy +Psychosis
"I desire love, not your sacrifices"
"carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”
Watch: Ezekiel Gets the Last Word
Why is the Prophetic Menorah Outside?