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The Experience of God
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I was listening to Marty Moss Coane’s interview on Radio Times on NPR this morning with David Peters, a former military chaplain who served in Iraq and returned with PTSD that he attempted to self medicate away with alcohol and multiple relationships once he returned home to find that his marriage was dissolving. He had…
Changing Your Mind About God
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I was listening to an NPR interview today with author Scott Chesire whose initial book is called High As the Horses’ Bridles, which is a reference to an image connected with Armageddon. It is a novel, but in part, is based on his own experience as a Jehovah’s Witness. In his conversation on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, he speaks of ‘fleeing’…
This Year’s Prayer
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I have long believed that prayer is portable. It is too expansive to be uttered only in an edifice such as a church, synagogue, temple, mosque or oak grove. It is not limited to one language or ritual; neither is one religion’s form ‘better’ or more powerful than any other, despite the contention of those who hold fundamentalist…
Christmas Eve Eve
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Photo credit: Terree O’Neill Yeagle The Moment Photography I am an equal opportunity holiday celebrant. Raised Jewish, I embrace this time as a season of light and love. I have both a menorah and mini tree; neither feel mutually exclusive for me, particularly since the tree originated as a Pagan symbol which was adopted by…
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