Enjoyed contacting the religious studies department at my university and connecting with old friends and professors today. Got to talk with several old friends working on really interesting ecumenical projects locally and globally!

I like their basic mission statement still, especially the idea that spirituality is a universal issue with transcends politics and governments and so is worth looking at as a human issue and need.

Hard to frame religion in a non-contentious way these days, but this school has done a nice job of keeping an open dialogue and at the same time allowing professors and students to be in their own traditions and personal practices.

Not an easy balance in an increasingly polarized world.
My favorite professors, who became friends, are working mainly on how art and spirituality get along or are brought under the same roof, which is mainly what drew me.

But I also studied under Rabbi Spiro in Jewish studies, great teacher and local rabbi. And was able to go much deeper into the Jewish roots of Christianity!

Good re-connecting to my old school friends today, and considering healthy places of spiritual dialogue especially in these volatile days!

They have a talk next week on muslim jewish relations in the US facilitated by an old friend. Would love to be here, as a fly on the wall to hear where Love converses in that conversation!

I’m glad I was drawn to identity, art and spirituality and where they intersect, even back then–still am! Glad some of my old professors are still telling the tales and asking the right questions for so many years!