The Shape of Faith

Jul 23 2024 8 ep. 77 mins 13

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"Have you made art about it yet?" A conversation about Inherent Creativity, Torah through Art-Making, and Energetic Pause, featuring Rabbi Adina Allen

Jul 23 2024 66 mins

Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer, and educator who grew up in an art studio where she learned firsthand the power of creativity for connecting to self and to the Sacred. She is cofounder and creative director of Jewish Studio Project (JSP), an organization that is seeding a future in which every person is connected to their creativity as a force for healing, liberati

Learning by Teaching, Giving God Compassion, and Choosing Joy: A Chat with Rabbi Sivan Rotholz

Jun 18 2024 61 mins

Rabbi Sivan Rotholz joined Central Synagogue full-time in 2024 after a year serving as a teacher with Central's Center for Exploring Judaism. Born in Haifa, Israel, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sivan earned her B.A. in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law, her M.F.A. in poetry from Brooklyn Colle

You can't hear God unless you're listening: A Chat with Br. Thomas Buttrick

Dec 13 2021 83 mins

Brother Thomas Buttrick was born in Phoenix in 1981, to a family with secular Jewish roots on his mother’s side and Protestant New England– though unchurched and fairly disconnected– roots on his father’s side. Thomas is one of three, having two older siblings, and, after his parents divorced when he was an infant, he, his mom and siblings moved out East, where he gained a

Winding In and Out of Academia, Spirituality, Fitness and Family Ties with Grant McCandless

Jan 25 2021 81 mins

A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Grant McCandless taught ethics and philosophy in community college before enrolling at Harvard to study American religious history as well as nonprofit management. While there he became an advisor to Habitat for Humanity International on their new interfaith inclusion initiative and withdrew from Harvard to do strategic planning for the

Discovering the Proximal Zone of Imagination and Just Showing Up: A Soul Symposium with Abby Brockman

Oct 01 2020 121 mins

Abby Brockman (she/her) is a Jewish trauma chaplain and spiritual caregiver who understands her role as facilitating transformative healing through increasing (re)connection at all levels of living: body, self, family, community, and something greater than ourselves. She received her MDiv from Boston University, trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and completed her

Listening Eloquently and Falling Into the Arms of the Divine: A Chat with Reverend Chaz Howard, the Campus Chaplain Who Started It All

Aug 25 2020 71 mins

The Rev. Charles (Chaz) Lattimore Howard, PhD is The University Chaplain and The Vice President for Social Equity and Community at the University of Pennsylvania - his alma mater. He has served in both hospital and hospice chaplaincies, and as a street outreach worker to individuals experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia. His writing has been featured in such publications as Bl

College Days, Deep Partnership and the Oneness of God: Reminiscing and Growing with Saara Hafeez and Samir Malik

Jul 30 2020 65 mins

"It was when I got to college that things started to seem a lot less shiny when it came to the faith." "I was disengaged, unaware, aloof- all those things with regards to other faiths. Maybe privileged is the right word. I was privileged to be in an environment where faith wasn't a discussion point." "Growing up, you could only access Islam through Arabic...We've chosen to look bey

For Love of Yoga, Art, God and Basketball: Digging Deep with Adam Grossi

Jul 30 2020 71 mins

"So, maybe I do think about God sometimes." "The desire to master something, I think, is a fear response." "Inspiration feels a little bit like a seed gets planted in the soil of the mind...do I have the right conditions present to really let this thing grow?" Art Direction and Design by Molly Keene Music by Yakov Fleischmann To learn more about Adam's work, visit http://www.ad