Category: Leaving Home

Like the liturgists of old, Arlin’s work troubles us where we are too comfortable and comforts us when we are troubled

Although I always seem to pick the hottest day of summer, it is a ritual whose heat and aroma wraps me in serenity, like the fine silk of a tallit.

Ritual helps us pay attention. From the joy of a recovery to the grief of a funeral, ritual helps us inhabit the breadth of human experience.

Is a ritual for saying goodbye to a sacred text appropriate for saying goodbye to people?

What I learned from a wrong turn on the road to the perfect ritual.