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Daily Excerpt: One Family: Indivisible (Greenebaum) - Holocaust and Hate

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  The following excerpt comes from One Family: Indivisible (Greenebaum) One thing I always felt as a child was safe. My parents and indeed my grandparents and my sister all helped to make me feel warm, loved, and totally secure. That all disappeared at dinner one evening in one, horrible, life-changing moment. I’m guessing I was about six, maybe seven — whatever the age is when a child’s mind begins to register what people are actually talking about.             Something may have happened in the news that day. But for whatever reason, the Holocaust was discussed at dinner. I’m sure the topic must have come up before, but this was the first time that it registered. With all children, I think you can tell them things when they are quite young and those things simply don’t compute. Then one day it suddenly makes sense. For me, this was that day. Six million Jews, exterminated. Two out of three in Europe (where’s Europe?). One out of three on the planet! Gone. Murdered. Stepped on like

Released Today: Paperback and E-Book Versions of An Afternoon's Dictation (Greenebaum)

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  Steven Greenebaum's latest book, An Afternoon's Dictation , was released today in both paperback and e-book versions. Description: In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life. An Afternoon's Dictation  grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations into "The Call to Interfaith," "The Call to Love One Another," "The Call to Justice," and "The Call to Community." Th

An Afternoon's Dictation Remains in Amazon Top 10 Past 30 Days

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  An Afternoon's Dictation (Greenebaum) has remained in the Amazon top 10 new releases/pre-orders in the ecumenical category for the past year. Congrats to the author! For more posts about this book and its author, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

An Afternoon's Dictation, Just Released, Achieves #1 Status in Christian Ecumenism on Amazon

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  It is always a happy day when one of our new releases achieves #1 status. Just found out that An Afternoon's Dictation (Greenebaum) has achieved that status. For more posts about this book and its author, click HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

Now Available on Pre-Order: An Afternoon's Dictation

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  An Afternoon's Dictation (Greenebaum) is now available on pre-order at online bookstores, e.g. Amazon and Barnes & Noble , and at the MSI Press webstore . (The webstore offers a 25% discount with the coupon code FF25.) In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life. An Afternoon's Dictation grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations into "The Call to Interfaith," "The Call to Love One

Daily Excerpt: One Family Indivisible (Greenebaum) - on letting go and coming back

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  Excerpt from One Family Indivisible on letting go and coming back I needed to power back a bit after the heart surgery. I tried to resume my activities and in many ways succeeded. But there were some things I just couldn’t do any more. That’s hard to acknowledge. Still, it’s intriguing to me that it was easier to let go of what I couldn’t do any more than to deal with the things I couldn’t do yet . Can’t do “yet”? Ok, then how soon? Next week? Next month? Next year? When?! … Patience. Patience!! It was hard for me to learn that — well, to be honest, I’m still working at it. I think it must be a lifelong effort. But most enlightening to me was seeing how others reacted. I learned early on that I could best communicate my approach to my heart attack and surgery by not calling it that. I quickly began calling it my heart adventure. An adventure was what it was. Fascinating, as Spock would say. There were so many things to discover and unwrap, both about recovering from surgery and about

Author in the News: Rev Greenebaum speaks at Parliament of the World's Religions

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  On October 18th, Steven Greenebaum, author of One Family: Indivisible   and Seeking Balance in an Unbalanced Time , spoke at the Parliament of the World’s Religions first virtual Parliament – with people tuning in virtually from all over the world. Steven’s topic was “Interfaith Congregations” and how coming together to celebrate each other’s spiritual paths might lead us to a more inclusive, respectful and compassionate future. This was the third consecutive Parliament where he was invited to speak about an aspect of Interfaith.  For more posts about Dr. Greenebaum and his book, click HERE .  

Excerpt from Seeking Balance in an Unbalanced Time (Greenebaum): Envisioning and Working for Our Future

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  Envisioning and Working for Our Future The point of this brief concluding chapter is not to attempt to provide answers. Rather, things are so intense and so difficult right now that it can be hard even to think of the future. Yet with everything so upside down, I believe we have an important opportunity to consider what we want to see in the future. A “new normal” is going to come out of this. How do we want that to look? It’s, of course, very human for us to shrug and say, “This just isn’t the time for that.” But as Hillel would remind us, “If not now, when?” There will be a new normal. There’s no disputing that. Do we simply want to stumble into it? Or do our children and their children deserve better? I have no children. But I care about yours. And I deeply believe they deserve a healthy “new normal”.             So, what I’d ask of us now is for us to begin pondering some questions. Below are just a few that occur to me. What’s important are not these questions to the exclusi

Book Excerpt from How to Argue with an Atheist (Brink): Accept the Limits of Science

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  STEP #3. ACCEPT THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE STUDENT: Dr. Brink? BRINK: Yes, oh come on in for our weekly conversation. STUDENT: I don't think I'll come in. I just stopped by to say thank you for all the time you have given me, but I don't think I'll be coming bac k. BRINK: I have enjoyed our conversations. But I thought that we would have a few more before I was done giving you my complete answer. STUDENT: I am sure that you have more to say, but I think that I got enough. I don't really disagree with anything you have said so far. I really thought about what we said last time about the limits of reason, and I do agree with that, and that it all comes down to making a decision, a commitment, and I have made my decision. I am going to stay with science, not just for my major and career, but my view of the world, evolution and all. BRINK: Well do come in and grant me a conversation about science. STUDENT: OK, I guess that I do have the time. BRINK: Tell me w