About the Book
A Time to Embrace: Creating Interfaith Community illuminates how Christians and Reform Jews can dialogue with each other and collaborate over shared values of scripture, Messiah, repair of the world, prayer, and Israel. In each chapter, Caleb Gilmore, a pastor, and David B. Bloom, a rabbi, unpack these values from their distinct perspectives as students, practitioners, and leaders of their respective faith communities. Intended for Christian colleges and universities, seminarians, churches, and synagogues, this book includes chapter summaries, discussion and reflection questions, resources for further learning, and a helpful glossary. Encouraging us to celebrate our religious differences, this book calls us to unite in common cause in an increasingly divided world.
All proceeds go to our non-profit publisher, Roots of Reform Judaism.
Authors
Rev. Dr. Caleb Gilmore is the Teaching Pastor at Crossings Knoxville, a nondenominational church in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a Hebrew Bible instructor at Johnston University. He is an alumnus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. His wife, Kristi, and children, Harvie and Ellie, are his motivation for all he does.
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Rabbi David B. Bloom earned a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters and rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. A graduate of Indiana University, he has served various congregations and organizations, including most recently as a part-time rabbi at Temple B'nai Israel in Amarillo, Texas. Now a medical student, he plans to combine the practice of medicine with the rabbinate.
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In our upcoming show, A Time to Embrace: The Podcast, hosts Rev. Caleb Gilmore, PhD, and Rabbi David Bloom expand on their book in six episodes. Sign up to be notified when the podcast comes out.
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