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
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.
christian ghetto shame
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
christian poison
This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
dance mother modern-woman
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
falling-in-love fall lovers
I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
christian use affair
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
religious book class
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
christian giving political
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
birthday enemy wish
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
though
I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.