Those who work in the news organizations were always given credentials to sit in a press box. In the new world order, the internet media still had trouble getting recognized in the quest for credentials.

Organized worship was being challenged like newspapers were. There was struggle and conflict with those in search of credentials. And even those with credentials were challenged. We are living in times when 30% of membership, you write still did not want to serve in a community based organization. They earn their sense of entitlement strictly by paying dues to a synogogue or church.

This morning I had read a bit of Hosea, the one prophet who had the misfortune to marry an unfaithful wife. In a world of unfaithful people, this was not so unusual. Hosea then ended up making life work preaching to an unfaithful people. If we were all faithful, Hosea wouldn’t have had a job.

I started reading your blog on Kaddish where I returned after reading of the above challenge. I found the article interesting because of the thousand of years of formation of Jewish identity. “My father is a part of each of my children, and he will be part of their children, and their children’s children.” It was all about identity, the formation, and how deep the sense belonging. By freeing 70% of the people to serve others, by the end of your ministry you would be in Cooperstown if only you had been a ballplayer instead of a rabbi. Take it from this Catholic, Hosea would be jealous.