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Angels and Saints~ Eros and Awe: Meeting at the Intersection of Spirituality and Sexuality
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I was an inquisitive child who asked a ton of questions, and in adulthood, my mother told me that my sister never had to ask because I did it first. Many of them were about sex and most were at the dinner table. According to my dad, he would blush and say to my mom,…
In God We Trust?
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I was raised in the Jewish faith tradition, going to synagogue every Friday night with my parents and sisters for as long as I can remember. Rituals for various holidays, including kindling Shabbos candles, creating the Passover seder and lighting the Hanukkah menorah were an integral part of my life. Saying the Shema which…
Who Would Jesus Hate?
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I am beginning this blog with a few rhetorical questions that may ruffle feathers, but like the man about whom I am writing, I am not averse to controversy and mind opening. How can those who claim to honor the birth, life, and death of One who came in the name of love, espouse hatred?…
Spiritual Abuse
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Recently I sat with a client in my practice who shared that she grew up in a fundamentalist church in which she was told that suffering was the way to experience God. Her life experience included physical and sexual abuse. Her child-mind internalized that God and pain were intertwined and now in her 50’s, she…
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