Lionel Blue
Lionel Blue
Lionel Blueis a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 February 1930
bother converting why-bother
To change, to convert? Why bother?
home heaven church
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
girl way return
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
ordinary said rabbi
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
saws idolatry stalinism
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
lovers devotee
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
discrimination insult luther
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
sorry people evil
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
spiritual thinking care
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
judaism infant versions
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
heaven sake encounters
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
birthday mother age
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
grateful reform christianity
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
soul problem my-soul
I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.