Acts of Hope

Text posted first on Facebook last night.   Brewer Fountain, Boston Common Two profoundly beautiful worship experiences today. ...

The International Jazz Day Global Concert is streaming live from Istanbul.  They've just started the speeches (the concert and the ...

Lève-toi, réveille-toi d'entre les morts! Click photo to enlarge and see detail. See here and here for more from Kariye (Chora) in Ist...

Sadao Watanabe, The Magi's Dream Bear in mind that I wrote this Epiphany sermon a little over a year after 9/11. It's from eight...

One of my favorite Pete Seeger songs, written by David Mallett: The Garden Song Photo: Sugar Creek Township , Greene County, Ohio

... I think back to France, where I lived when I was growing up. I had hoped to be there for these holidays, but for a variety of reasons I...

Note: I am writing this post on the weekend of December 11-13 but back-dating it to the day of the anniversary, the day I thought of it. Kar...

Halifax Public Gardens I am back safely from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and before that, Boston. I intend to blog about some aspects of my trip....

We had a little conversation going on Facebook last night about the appropriate music to accompany end-of-semester grading. I raised the que...

Thanks to Kirstin for this one! Baa, baa, bamba! Sing along bilingually! (+Maya Pavlova says thank you for el gatito.)

I heard this live around the time it came out --not this particular performance, but the same year and with the same great backup singers. ...

Another old song -- from my college years! I still love it. Picture from now, because middle-aged men are much more sexy than younger ones....

He still sings this song well -- perhaps even better than before. P.S. He has a new album out, Covers .

I just posted this on Facebook for a friend who is deep in a writing job and thought I'd share it here for the assembled multitudes. I...

My aunt Anne Rothenberg, née Anne Becker, died of cardiac arrest early this evening in New York. Her son, my cousin Ron, said that she went ...

A friend dropped by a few hours ago with a warm, freshly baked loaf of challah which she had just made. Mmmm! I gave her some flowers from t...

I am going to make this 10th healing Psalm last. Mostly because I have had a huge, long day and am cooking a little sniffle and want to tak...

Where else but Brazil could you get two grown men singing about a duck sounding and looking so sexy? This is an old song (compared to some ...

I posted two versions of this in May (live here , recorded three and a half decades earlier here ) but here is another. I never get sick of...

A good op-ed on the need for a stimulus package for the arts in the new administration, by an old friend of the Acts of Hope family whose wo...