Let’s Go Together

If we sit around and wait for our feelings to change, for our despair to ebb and hope to arise, we will never leave our comfortable, lonely, and hopeless place. What is required in this moment is something like what Soren Kierkegaard called, “A leap into faith.” That is, a leap into trust, into risk, into making an attempt. A leap into hope.

We have a vision. We have a vision to respond to the loss of trust, sense of fear, and the hardening divisions we are experiencing: In every town, city, and neighborhood, people of all faith traditions, cultures, and ethnicities are coming together regularly to Eat, play, and share stories – Discovering the wisdom of each…

We don’t just need to speak and hear those words. To do our small part to increase our trust in each other, we need to see it and participate in it.

I have been thinking about our founding fathers, Rabbi Levine and Father Treacy, a lot over the last few years. They didn’t just feel love as a feeling – although both of them brought a lot of heart to their interfaith work together. They worked hard to discern real-world strategies to make love and respect…