After several years of work and a lot of versioning, the Haggadah I wrote is live and available to the world. You can buy it at amazon because that’s how these things are done, and if you like it please let me know or leave a review. You can do that even if you don’t like it – we learn from both prose and criticism in equal measure.

When I first started working on this project it was not really intended to be the multi-faith book that it became; I just kept asking questions where I was uncomfortable in other Haggadahs, at other seders. I wondered about other answers to the four questions, other perspectives, what the symbols meant before we decided what they should mean. Over the years I have found that pausing to ask ‘why’ when you find yourself in a point of reactivity or discomfort can be very valuable, and that it is often in those places where you reveal your deep values and the spaces that want to open up for change. That is what happened for me in working on this book and allowing myself the room to explore theologically where I felt uncomfortable, where I thought things might not be exactly true in the way we were defining God.

I don’t presume to suggest I got it right; what I wanted to do was to get on paper something that felt like how I feel when I trust God to lead me and to offer some tools that I have found to be helpful along my own way. I hope that people who identify Jewishly will use this for a Seder (since traditionally you can have two nights of seder you can try a different Haggadah on each night and explore a contrast), I also hope that people who are Christian will use this during Holy Week, perhaps on Maundy Thursday as a way of building an understanding of Jesus as a Jewish man, and the message that the Exodus story needs to teach about freedom and liberation for everyone in that lineage. I also hope that anyone who practices a faith tradition or anyone who thinks it is all hooey might sit together for a meal and use the structure as a way of meditating on what it means to be free, and how we come to let go of the ego and identity that keeps us stuck.

More than anything I hope when you read this, if you read this that a least a little spark of the divine light gets curious about what could be in and for you, and that like Abram and Moses you say, perhaps out of pure surprise, ‘here I am God – I’ll go.’

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