Episode 8: Lizzi Heydemann

November 1, 2015

Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann is the founder of Mishkan Chicago, a booming “post-denominational” Jewish faith community. Mishkan’s first service took place in a living room. Last year it welcomed more than 1,500 people to the high holidays.

In this episode, Lizzi and Matt compare Protestant and Jewish preaching, discuss ways a charismatic rabbi can avoid developing a cult of personality, and consider what Christian congregations can learn from Mishkan’s success.

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Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

by Wendell Berry