by Rebekah Simon-Peter | May 11, 2020
“I’m really depressed about everything that is going on,” my long-time friend Lin confided to me. I understood. After all, her state had been in a serious lockdown. Her fiancé was sheltering in place five states away. She was stuck at home where once she was used...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | May 5, 2020
You are on the front lines of leadership during the largest, swiftest cultural shift the world has ever experienced. Everything has changed. You have been rising to the challenge. In fact, some of you are experiencing this as the most rewarding, if not demanding,...
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 | Sep 14, 2019
At one church I visited recently, a long-time member confided that the church was going to have to split because the two pastors had differing views on human sexuality and the Bible. Why can’t our differences live side by side? They do in the Bible. ...
