Posts Tagged ‘freedom|quest-magazine-2013-03’

I doubt that any concept has greater currency among Americans than freedom and its synonym, liberty.

I’ve attended the circus exactly three times in my life twice as a child and once as an adult. The first two were the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey circus (under the big-top, the Greatest Show on Earth) and the third was Cirque de Soleil, held in an auditorium theater.

This year what has taken hold of me about Passover is not so much the story itself, but the very fact that the story is reliably told and retold, generation after generation, at the family Seder.

In the early 1990s I interned in the Church of the United Community, a tiny storefront congregation in the Marcus Garvey Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts, triple yoked between the United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, and Unitarian Universalists.

Freedom. It isn���t once, to walk outunder the Milky Way, feeling the riversof light, the fields of dark…