A biography for Lionel Bluehasn’t been written yet.
“For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”