I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

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.

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.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

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.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.