"Religion in America, 2011," with Rabbi Lester Bronstein and Father Gawain de Leeuw
My guests are Rabbi Lester Bronstein of Beth Am Shalom and Father Gawain de Leeuw of Saint Bartholomew’s of White Plains, NY. Our subject is the secular challenge to the spiritual world.
Rabbi Lester Bronstein has served Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in White Plains since 1989. He is past president of the Westchester Board of Rabbis, and is on the board of several interfaith organizations, including the White Plains Religious Leaders Association. Formerly he was a lecturer in Rabbinics in the Cantorial School of Hebrew Union College in New York. For many years he and his wife sang with Beged Kefet, a charity-based Jewish musical group. Lester was born in Houston and educated at Yale, BU and the Hebrew Union College and writes and teaches about the revitalization of Jewish life in America, based on ancient models of practice.
Father Gawain de Leeuw has served congregations in White Plains for 10 years and has been at St. Bartholomew’s for the past seven years (he was previously curate at Grace Church).
Father de Leeuw, who was ordained to the priesthood in 1996, was raised in Rochester New York, to a multi-faith family. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy, cum laude, from Oberlin College in 1991 and was awarded his Masters in Divinity degree at the University of Chicago in 1995. He received his Anglican Studies certificate at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. He was graduated with his Doctor in Ministry in Congregational Development at Seabury-Western Seminary in 2010
After ordination, he received the Luce Scholar’s award, serving the English Mission at the Anglican Cathedral in Seoul and teaching liturgical theology at Anglican University. He has been trained in Leadership, Authority and Organization at the Tavistock Institute and facilitative leadership and coaching at the Interaction Institute for Social Change. He has written for the Anglican Theological Review, The Witness, SoMA magazine and Salsa New York. He has served as the chair of the Committee for the formation of a Credit Union, and is currently the Dean of the Westchester Central Clericus, and president of the White Plains Religious Leaders.
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