I had the honor of preaching at my ordination service. “Hear, O Israel!” – this is how the greatest commandment begins. Faith means listening: to God, to other people, and to one’s own heart. In my ordination sermon at Basel Minster, I speak about why love of God cannot be thought of without love of … “You Are Not Far” – My Ordination Sermon weiterlesen
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All of us pray, but in a different wayon our knees or on our feetwith our head bowed or the faces turned to heavenSome wrapped in prayer shawlswith beads between their fingersothers with rawhide rattlesand the drumbeat in their heartsSome go to splendid temples all across the globeothers in the quiet woodor in the desert … Prayers weiterlesen