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There is a question I have been sitting with since Sunday, one that arrived from a conversation that ran nearly six hours and showed no sign of ending. Last week I had dinner with an old school friend, Sam, and our favourite teacher from year twelve, Sandy, who is now in her late-eighties and still easily the sharpest and most interesting person in the room. That night, we covered so many fun topics, from the train wreck of Washington politics to the meaning of ordination to

Many of us both look forward to the Christmas holidays and also find them completely exhausting. We can't wait to take a break, but all the awkward family get-togethers, rushing around, and busy shopping knock us out. What is a "holiday," really? The word "holiday" comes from an Old English word which literally means "holy day." First recorded around 950, it referred exclusively to consecrated religious days and the Sabbath. Even deeper, "holy" traces back to a root meaning "

Last night at Bondi Beach, fifteen people celebrating Hanukkah were murdered in a terrorist attack that has left many more critically injured and all of us reeling in shock. Many of us have Jewish friends, neighbours, or family. To them, we are so deeply sorry. We grieve with you. We cannot fathom the weight you are carrying: the fear, the anger, the exhaustion of being hated without end. An old friend of ours, whom we reached out to, said that she told her son, fresh from hi