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Responding to Love鈥檚 call to heal our planet

Responding to Love鈥檚 call to heal our planet

I believe every generation attempts to respond to Love鈥檚 call, each blessed with individual and collective opportunities to grow more light in the world. Many faiths teach that as humanity鈥檚 only task.
A health-care professional's quest to experience God

A health-care professional's quest to experience God

From a young age, Giulia Nesi loved to help others. It was a desire so deep it led her to earn a masters degree in social work before opening a clinical practice in the mental health field as a psychotherapist.
From Doomsday Cult in Indiana to Practising Jew in New York City

From Doomsday Cult in Indiana to Practising Jew in New York City

Join Angela Himsel as she discusses her memoir, A River Could be a Tree
Celebration of Sephardic Jewish Culture

Celebration of Sephardic Jewish Culture

Learn about the history of Sephardic Turkish Jews, sample Turkish foods and listen to Sephardic Music by Kouskous Band on Sunday, February 10, 2019 from 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, 1461 Blanshard Street, Victoria V8W 2J3.
Finding opportunities for kindness a healthy new year promise

Finding opportunities for kindness a healthy new year promise

My aspirations to health and fitness often strike at peculiar times, which, along with the patience and forbearance of a faithful friend, accounts for our predicament on a wet and darkening Sunday afternoon shortly before Christmas.
World Interfaith Harmony Week - an opportunity to come together

World Interfaith Harmony Week - an opportunity to come together

World Interfaith Harmony Week is only a few days away, so I鈥檇 like to highlight its importance and talk a bit about wisdom because 鈥溾nterfaith harmony is not an option but a necessity in a world of diversity鈥 (Doyeon Park, a Won Buddhist from New Yo
Navigating White Fragility from one Zen Perspective

Navigating White Fragility from one Zen Perspective

Recently, I was invited to a talk at UVic given by Robin DiAngelo, author of the book White Fragility . We were in the middle of a family crisis. A dear family member had been medevac鈥檇 to Victoria General for emergency care.
Hope helps us to cope with ambiguity in life

Hope helps us to cope with ambiguity in life

Life is ambiguous鈥攖wo-sided-- positive and negative always together. Every human being is ambiguous, including ourselves. Nobody is perfect. Nobody is totally bad.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity an important step

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity an important step

Is a week of prayer for Christian unity enough? Or has it outlived its time and we need to think and act and pray for unity, period! Inter-religious/spiritual, inter-racial, inter-cultural, inter-political, inter-social/economic, inter-national, inte
Invitation to learn about the sacred texts of Judaism

Invitation to learn about the sacred texts of Judaism

Congregation Emanu-El Adult Education Committee presents 鈥 The Sacred Craft of the Sofar 鈥 with Dov Berger on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 7:00 pm.