Dr. C.S. Hale

Dr. C.S. Hale is a father, grandfather, father-in-law, son, brother, uncle, cousin, friend, student of the Tanakh and the New Testament Scriptures, and seeker of Truth, as well as a poet, playwright, contemporary psalmist, and clinical neuropsychologist. He has been granted the honor to serve many children and families over the past 37 years.
He is former nonbeliever, who, after 20 years of atheism, as well as studying post-modern and perennial philosophies, world religions, transpersonal psychology, and New Age teachings, became a follower and friend of Yeshua Hamashiach, the Lord Jesus Christ, when he was nearly 40 years old. He is a Gentile with a Jewish heart.
Carl wrote about his first exposure to antisemitism when he was an undergraduate student at Indiana University, and his concerns about antisemitism and Jew hatred in our great nation in 2025:

Growing up, my parents were not antisemitic. To this day, when my mother hears the word Jew or Jewish, she says “The Jews are God’s chosen people.” She says it like most people say, “tomorrow the sun will rise,” with absolute assurance. Recently, when our time together moved to world events involving Israel and the Jewish people, mom stated sadly, “The Jewish people have had everything taken away from them.” No theologian ever spoke truth so simply.

As an undergraduate at Indiana University in Bloomington in the 1980s, I was confronted with antisemitism for the first time. Geoff, a Jewish student on my dorm floor, was often referred to as “Jew boy.” Antisemitic jokes and teasing were also common. Geoff was good natured and gentle, so he approached the “joking” taunts with self-deprecation and a sense of humor. At that time, I did not really understand what was occurring, but it is clear in retrospect that my peers, a few of them my friends, had been exposed to Jewish tropes and stereotypes. All these years later, I still wonder how Geoff was impacted by those calloused putdowns.

My junior year in college I befriended an outgoing and friendly Jewish gal named Jackie. Jackie was from New York City. She was a member of a Jewish sorority, so she sometimes wore her sorority letters. When Jackie stopped at a local fast-food restaurant in a small Indiana town, the woman at the counter refused to serve her because she recognized Jackie’s sorority as Jewish.

I was stunned that an employee of a well-known food chain would be so hateful toward a young college student. It is a memory that will never leave me. Nearly 40 years later, I was convicted by G-d’s Spirit to rent a billboard near where the event occurred. The name of the town is not important now because antisemitism and Jew hatred are appearing all over the United States of America.

Jokes and putdowns, thinly disguised hate speech such as “from the river to the sea” and “globalize the intifada,” conspiracy theories about Jewish plots and world control, and calloused comments are not harmless. They are reckless and inhuman, unchristian and Unamerican. Hate speech and free speech can never coexist. It is important to understand that the Holocaust began with ideas and philosophies, attitudes and theologies, careless words and opinions that became cold indifference and turning away, eventually erupting into unimaginable violence and depravity.

In Luke 6:45, Jesus Christ said, “A good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the treasure of his heart.  For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.”   What we believe we eventually say, revealing the inner person, the soul itself.  Then actions follow.

C.S. continues: 

In 2021, I started working on a play about Jewish children in the Holocaust.  As a contemporary psalmist, I wrote a long poem over a decade and a half ago titled ‘Holocaust Psalm,’ which became the basis for the play.  Nearly 1.5 million Jewish children, little girls and boys, most of them in nursery and elementary schools, nearly all of them under 13 years old, were brutally and horribly murdered during the Holocaust, also called HaShoah, with bullets and poisonous gas. Very few stories of these children have been presented, especially to Gentiles, in literature and the media.

I do not believe HaShoah scholars have intentionally marginalized these Jewish children, however.  Sadly, only scattered, unconnected threads of their short lives remain. Those threads, the memories, experiences, hopes, and dreams of so many Jewish children, entire worlds, cried out to be gathered and told, before the wind carried them into silent forgetfulness. 

At the Gates of Sheol, a play in three acts, is the result of nearly four years of gathering, listening, researching, writing, editing, remembrance, repentance, reconstruction, grieving, and weaving children’s stories into one narrative of HaShoah. Their stories of daring courage in the face of evil and darkness speak to us today.

But these children have a difficult message for us to hear: every human being who does not recognize the potential for evil in his or her own heart may be condemned to act on it. Will you choose good or evil in our present age?  Where is evil hiding in your heart?  What will your account before the Most High be?

At the conclusion of his family genealogy, Dr. Hale wrote:

There is no greater success, no grander achievement, no higher accolade, no nobler accomplishment, no bolder renown, no finer legacy, no more momentous life, than to have loved and been loved in this world. 

Our Jewish neighbors understand this truth better than most Gentiles.  Human beings are here to serve our families and neighbors, each other, but most of all Hashem, the Most High, YHWH, G-d Almighty, the only perfect Savior & Judge.

C.S. wrote:

I have touched
and been touched
by sapphire majesty
kinship with The King
royal silver starlight
one heart restored
by angels of an age
for I have loved
and been Loved.

In the Words of my beloved Lord:

For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son
that whoever believes in Him
shall not perish,
but have eternal life.