Lessons from the Eclipse: Finding Light in the Blackout
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Last week people across North America put on special glasses, tipped their heads up, and watched the solar eclipse. The energy created in those few minutes acted […]
There’s A New World Coming: Let’s Make It a Better One
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten “It’s not the end of the world.” How many of us have said something like that to someone we love when trying to comfort them, or […]
Sermon: “The Third Way”
by Rev. Dr. George Mason February 14, 2024 Ash Wednesday | Woodland Church | San Antonio, TX Scripture: 8:31-38 It would be easy to read Jesus in Mark’s Gospel as […]
Sermon: “All In”
by Rev. Dr. George Mason January 7, 2024 | Church of the Transfiguration | Dallas, TX Scripture: Mark 1:4-11 Do you see what he did, your good rector? He looked […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]