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Image by jta (JTA) — On March 13, nearly a year to the day after Temple Beth El of Charlotte, North Carolina, closed due to COVID-19, Rabbi Dusty Klass gathered the congregation’s 900 households for a shared — albeit remote — Jewish experience. Unable to gather her community for worship, Klass and her colleagues, including operations manager Nathalie Friedlander, invented something new: Challah Day. Volunteers baked over 900 challahs, and others delivered them to the doorstep of every household in the community for enjoying over a Shabbat meal. Even those who rarely attend synagogue p...

What everyone else gives away for free, Texas government might soon charge you for What everyone else gives away for free, Texas government might soon charge you for A CEO of global property tax company based in Dallas pushes hard for a new state law, and people wonder why. Brint Ryan, chairman and CEO of Ryan, a global property tax consultant company headquartered in Dallas, is politically-connected and unafraid to use his connections to promote laws in his industry.(David Woo - Staff Photographer) 9:41 AM on May 20, 2021 CDT A bill that appears destined to become state law would force tax c...

During the course of COVID quarantine, something remarkable happened: I tasted satisfaction, even happiness. No doubt St. Augustine was right that our souls are restless until they rest in God. But when all my travel was canceled, my office was moved to my basement, and my world shrank to the size of our modest ranch home and its sunny front yard, my own restless soul experienced a season of contentment. I began to look forward to a daily breakfast of oatmeal and banana, and I found pleasure in the hum of the bowl as I scratched it clean with a scrub brush every morning. Taking a walk with my...

Dear Dr. Mohler, Although we haven’t met yet, you and I are new neighbors to one another in Louisville. I serve as the pastor of Highland Baptist Church, just down the road from Southern Seminary. I was called as pastor of Highland last year, and I joined a team of remarkable pastors on our staff, many of whom happen to be women. In fact, we like to point out that there are actually high-heel marks in the wooden floor of our chancel from all the women who have preached in Highland’s pulpit over the years! I recognize that you and I don’t see eye-to-eye on women in ministry, and I have n...

March 16, 2021 With you, for you: In Gilead, a dying pastor writes about the joy that parents experience watching their children grow up   -  ISTOCK.COM With you, for you: In Gilead, a dying pastor writes about the joy that parents experience watching their children grow up   -  ISTOCK.COM× A mother struggles with fears of mortality and the meaning of existence through a year of death and disease When I announced to my family that I intended to marry a Hindu, my aunt came up with an unusual objection. “They (the church) won’t allow you to be buried in the cemetery,” she warned. An...