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
grateful reform christianity
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
jew
Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
jew comfortable
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
song suffering want
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
soul problem my-soul
I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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!
sympathy lessons lectures
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
war school home
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
years republic kingdoms
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
oxford quaker
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
eggs meat good-work
It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
christmas christian jesus
The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
christian jesus unique
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
christian retreat stills
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.