While in Toronto, I made a live appearance on Canada's national morning show Canada AM to promote my book, and had
an intense philosophical conversation with a friend about whether or not full - time travel is an act of withdrawal.
Not too many years later, when I was pastor of a black parish in Brooklyn, I came to know Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and we formed a fast friendship, first in shared activism against the Vietnam War and later in countless hours of
intense theological and
philosophical conversation» usually in his smoke - filled office (he with his cigar and I with my pipe) high in the tower of Jewish Theological Seminary up on Morningside Heights.