“Making and doing is important. But love and death, beauty and pain, ideals and despair are the stuff of our existence. Education which fails to open the mind to the meaning of human experience is …
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On Not Knowing What To Ask
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How Can We Believe in God in a World Like This – II
“God may be in His heaven, but all is not well on earth.” This sermon from April 5, 1964, is a reworking on a message originally broadcast by Rabbi Olan back on January 13, 1963 …
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Psychiatry and Religious Faith
“The Biblical faith teaches that man and God are co-workers in the business of living.” Is psychiatry a replacement for religion? During the 1960s reliance on the former was growing in popularity while the latter …
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An Attempt at Defining Religion
“The Biblical answer to man’s question – ‘why should I do good and not evil?’ – is that man is made in the image of God. God is holy, so is man.” Rabbi Olan’s March …
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Let Us Pay What We Owe
“There is a story of a poor beggar who came to the home of a very rich man. He looked upon the lavish furniture, the gold and silver ornaments, the precious jewels and clothes of …
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On Praying to a Limited God
“If God can do anything and He loves all mankind, and He does not use His power to help His child, He is either not God or not good, as the poet McLeish told us …
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Yet One More Plague
“One of the oldest and most persistent of our human failings is our stubborn refusal to learn from experience.” Rabbi Olan’s sermon “Yet One More Plague,” delivered on February 9, 1964, begins with a dramatic …
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Can God Really Help?
“All man really wants to hear from God is: ‘I am.'” On February 2, 1964 Rabbi Olan returned to some familiar themes found in many of his radio sermons: the existence of God, the nature …
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What Should Dallas Do Now?
“The people want desperately to forget the tragedy and go on with the business of living as though nothing had happened here.” On January 19, 1964, Rabbi Olan posed a question to the citizens of …
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Salvation For Modern Man
“We are involved in a partnership with the universe which promises a better day for humankind.” On January 12, 1964, Rabbi Olan spoke about salvation: a word used by many religions, each with their own …
Rabbi Levi A. Olan: The Conscience of the City 