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The story begins like this: “Mr and Mrs Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform. In fact, that was how he came to have such an unusual name for a bear, because Paddington was the name of the station. The Browns were waiting to meet their daughter, Judy, when Mr Brown noticed something small and furry near the LEFT LUGGAGE office. “It looks like a bear,” he said. “A bear?” repeated Mrs Brown. “On Paddington Station? Don’t be silly, Henry. There can’t be!” But Mr Brown

This Passover, I am thinking a lot about the idea of how we share and retell our stories. Throughout my time at Hebrew Union College, we studied some of the work of theologian James Fowler. In Fowler’s book the Stages of Faith, he writes about the concept of faith development through, what he calls, master stories. He says: “master stories are the stories we tell ourselves and by which we interpret and respond to the events which impinge on our lives. These master stories

As many of you know, We celebrated our first Interfaith Model Seder on April 3 with colleagues and friends from the many congregations around Emanuel. I felt immense gratitude for the Clergy who were present: Father James F. Heyd, Rabbi Marcey Rosenbaum, Rev. Fred Kinsey (Unity Lutheran), Dr. Jane Steinfels (Sacred Heart), Rev. Tasha Mitchell (New Story Chicago), Rev. Michael Ware (Northshore Baptist Church), Rev. Greg Sabetta (Congregational United Church of Christ of Arli