WORDS THAT BREATHE

Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Father Ross Porter opened an interfaith series at Congregation Or Ami asking where God is when life hurts. Here's what happened.

A prayer written for a friend fighting cancer, offered here for anyone walking that same fight. Holy One of Healing, I’ve got this. Because I know You’ve got me. Draw near now, steady my spirit, strengthen me for what lies ahead. Cancer may have entered my body, but it does not get to claim my spirit. I am more than this diagnosis, more than my fear. I am fierce. I am fighting. I am here. When I feel strong, let me seize that strength. When fear finds me, hold me. Fill me wit

Jazz was my sanctuary that night in Chicago. Michelle and I had slipped into the Jazz Showcase , where saxophonist Bobby Watson , the...

After 11 deaths in 11 days, I had it out with God. It was time for the conversation with the Creator that I had been putting off.

The mother died four days after her daughter became Bat Mitzvah. And then I had it out with God.