Dear Mr Silvester I am glad some action has been taken over your pronouncements about your religious ideas connecting the recent weather to Equal Marriage legislation. When I teach theodicy to my students – adults and children – I sadly have to explain to them that the world contains such people Read more…
If you’re looking for some opinion pieces about Equal Marriage from Liberal rabbis in advance of the vote tomorrow in parliament: A few pieces from my blog The archbishop, the cardinal and a rabbi: marriage equality Slideshow at JFS.. Political discourse… Some other pieces by Rabbi Aaron Goldstein Praying for Read more…
When politicians write or speak of values in the context of religion, I get just a little bit uneasy; particularly when they refer to values of the Bible or of a particular religion. So Prime Minister David Cameron was on a hiding to nothing with his Easter message this year. Read more…
Far be it from me to wade into a debate amongst Christians about same-sex marriage. What the church and its leaders choose to be its position on the subject is entirely up to them. However, from a Liberal Jewish perspective, I disagree quite fundamentally with the arguments espoused by the Read more…
Some of my rabbinic colleagues have already responded more fully to the incident of a charity, which promotes an attitude that people who are gay can be ‘cured’, being featured in a lesson at JFS. I do not want to simply repeat what they have said, though it goes without Read more…