by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Feb 10, 2020
For three days in an Airbnb rental in a cozy Atlanta neighborhood, my team and I took a spiritual retreat. Nine of us worshiped together, laughed and played together, ate meals together, envisioned the coming year together, and worked on some detailed processes...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Feb 1, 2020
There’s a classic Jewish aphorism: “two Jews, three opinions.” It sounds like the punch line to a joke, but it’s merely an observation about Jewish willingness to see all sides of an argument and to debate them with aplomb. Rabbi Wolpe references Yeats: “Out of the...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jan 21, 2020
It’s easy to get depressed these days. Between meanspirited win/lose politics, the dismissal of fact-based debate, public shootings, brutal treatment of migrants and asylum seekers, extreme weather events, and destabilized foreign relations, the darkness around us...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jan 9, 2020
The Season of Epiphany is framed by two key events in the life of Christ: his baptism and his transfiguration. In between these two major experiences, this liturgical season covers Jesus’ entire life and ministry. It’s a season of deepening in spiritual growth....
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Dec 3, 2019
The Advent the liturgy instructs us to pray—solemnly, hopefully, deeply—is “Come, Lord Jesus, come.” This hopeful prayer set against the backdrop of darkening days—both seasonally and politically —implies waiting with expectation. Yet I can’t help but wonder...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Nov 15, 2019
Gender and Christianity has been in the news the last couple of weeks. Specifically the role of women in church leadership. After telling wildly popular evangelical bible teacher Beth Moore to “go home,” influential fundamentalist preacher John MacArthur clarified...
