To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not becoming a… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
