Rescuing Food and Recovering Faith
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten In January of 2023 Faith Commons invited a group of people to a meeting to discuss how to reduce food insecurity in Dallas. To be honest, […]
2024 Spring Holidays Memo
Originally sent from the Office of the Chaplain at SMU
What will become of us in 2024?
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Last week someone asked to meet us at our location. We had to explain that Faith Commons is not a brick and mortar operation. Our location […]
2023 Person of the Year: Nancy Kasten
This article was originally published on Preston Hollow People. You can access the original article here. by Maria Lawson Rabbi Nancy Kasten, chief relationship officer at Faith Commons, works to develop relationships […]
Slouching toward Bethlehem
by Rev. Dr. George Mason, Second Baptist Church, Lubbock, Texas 2nd Sunday of Advent, December 10, 2023 | Isaiah 40:1-5; 2 Peter 3:8-15a It’s an occupational hazard, I suppose. Whenever […]
Until the World Is Perfect: Being Human Takes Practice
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten In 1870 Ulysses Grant signed a bill establishing “December 25th…commonly called Christmas Day” as a federal holiday, along with January 1, Thanksgiving Day, and the Fourth […]
Opening Our Eyes to Thanksgiving
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Several years ago, an Israeli friend participated in a vacation home swap with an acquaintance in Europe. When she returned to her home in Jerusalem, she […]
North Texas native concerned about safety of family, friends in Palestine
This article was originally published by WFAA here. Rania Batrice has continued to try to reach her loved ones in the Middle East who are caught in the middle of […]
Peacebuilders Never Give Up
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Massacre. Abduction. Bloodbath. Torture. No one word adequately describes the depravity of Hamas’ attack against Israel on October 7. All of them apply. And no one […]
Reflections from an American Christian Mother
by Mara Richards Bim When our plane landed in Tel Aviv on October 7th at 5:00 pm local time, I turned on my phone to let my husband and daughter […]