In ONE HOUR (at 12:00 p.m.) our next weekly workshop begins.

We will begin learning the final third of the compass on loving ourselves. The first point in this section is BREATHE. Doesn't that sound good today?

• Texas Rabbi: Despite False Media Narratives, Synagogue Attack Brought Jewish & Muslim Communities Together, Democracy NOW!
  • Rabbi Nancy Kasten was interviewed on Democracy NOW about the hostage situation at Congregation Beth-Israel at nearby Colleyville, Texas.
• Religious groups stand together after Texas synagogue standoff, MSNBC
  • Imam Dr. Omar Suleiman was interviewed on MSNBC's Morning Joe about his experience at Congregation Beth-Israel on January 15 during the hostage situation.
• Why a Muslim imam showed up at the Colleyville synagogue to offer spiritual help, by Nancy Kasten in the Dallas Morning News
  • "He is a Muslim who embodied the Jewish commandment: Never forget that you were slaves in Egypt. Never forget that when one faith community is attacked, all faith communities are attacked. Never forget that if our neighbor is not safe, neither are we."
• 5th Annual MLK Teach-In, Friendship-West Baptist Church
  • Watch the video from last Saturday's teach-in, with Rev. George Mason and Rev. Freddy Haynes.
• Are you sleeping through the revolution? By George Mason in Baptist News Global
  • "Imagine with me how different history might have been if the church had not slept through one revolution after another. What if we had been awake to what God was up to in the world and cast a vision for it instead of working to protect the status quo?"