My Fun Theology Workbook

Rabbi Brian has written what may seem to some an oxymoron: a FUN theology book. This practical guide to being found by God is fanciful, adventurous and serious, all at the same time – like God. I highly recommend it for anyone who is ready to give God another try!Please do the most good and order from your local bookstore. (It’s a little slower, but it gets you into a bookstore and you’ll feel good about doing that.)
Get it autographed from Rabbi Brian for Amazon’s or Barnes and Noble’s price

BOOK.
SELF-GUIDED SPIRITUAL DIRECTION.

Unlearn bothersome assumptions.

Interactive exercises.

Go at your own pace.

Highly reviewed.

$20 – from booksellers or autographed from rB

The Delay

January 14, 2026

2026 issue #03 — The Delay I’m in my buddy David’s car. He’s driving me from my mom’s apartment in NYC to Newark, NJ, where I’m going to catch a plane back home to Portland. David and I have been friends for fifty years. Amazing. My phone dings. I look at it. Nothing important. Just an alert from United. *

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Lifeboats. Summer. Bridges. Helpers.

January 10, 2026

Lifeboats. Summer. Bridges. Helpers. The rapid succession of a toddler-drunk-on-power messes is overwhelming. I’m exhausted by the sheer number of (what seem to me) reprehensible acts. My country is sickening me. federal agents shooting at (and killing) civilians actions against immigrants, federal workers, the environment, reproductive rights invading a sovereign nation and abducting its leader pardoning people who committed reprehensible

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A Friday Night Tradition

December 14, 2025

Religiously. Every Friday night, religiously, I do a particular tradition. I do the same ritual religiously every Friday night. I’m not misusing the word religiously to mean fanatically, as in the improper use of it in the sentence: She exercises religiously. I use the word religiously as it should be used—with more positive connotations—as in calmly, forgivingly, without rushing. So,

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