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.

This summer, amid the turmoil, I realized it was time to finally have that conversation I had been putting off. With all that has happened recently, my frustration was growing. And if I was ever going to get to a place of forgiveness, I needed to lay all my cards out on the table. I needed to take my friend to task for the chaos that my friend caused. So I made an appointment to sit down to share the struggle inside my soul. We’re taught that God created this world, so it see

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