Theodore Goldstein

1 week ago | thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Theodore Goldstein

Chag Pesach Sameach to those observing Passover this week. In this week’s Dispatch Faith and on our website today we’re featuring three writers with three different essays on Passover’s larger themes. First up as the featured essay in today’s newsletter is Theodore Goldstein’s meditation on freedom and Passover. As he puts it, Passover doesn’t just commemorate freedom from something (in this case, slavery), but freedom for something. And that, he argues, is a universal theme.

2 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Michael Wear |Michael Reneau |Theodore Goldstein |Hannah Anderson

I have been thinking a lot about agency lately. Politics in America over the last decade has felt designed, scripted even, to rob people of their own sense of agency. I think many people feel as if our politics is happening to them—affecting their livelihood, their relationships, their neighborhoods—and is beyond their reach or influence. But agency is not only essential for a healthy democracy, agency is an essential aspect of what it means to be human.