November 2011 – Page 2

Building Hedges: What the Rabbis Taught Me About Managing ADHD

Posted on November 18, 2011November 22, 2011 by Rebecca Levi

For the vast majority of my improvement since being diagnosed with ADHD, I have to credit drugs and therapy. However, learning Rabbinic texts has helped me understand the way my brain works--and the w... Read More

The Gift of Interaction

Posted on November 18, 2011November 17, 2011 by Karen Leslie Hernandez

I am working in downtown Boston again. My workplace is great and I really love that I walk through the oldest park in America every morning. What I don’t love seeing are the homeless men and wom... Read More

an unexpected joy

Posted on November 18, 2011November 17, 2011 by Sarah J. Blake LaRose

At one time in my life, I thought that it would be physically impossible for me to study Hebrew. I am now working to help others to find the joy that I have found in biblical lanugage study.... Read More

The Samaritan and the Nittany Lions

Posted on November 17, 2011November 17, 2011 by Jessica Joslin

The tragic events at Penn State have captured the nation’s attention. The question that is at the center of it all seems to be: “Did they do enough?” Did the then graduate assistant, Mike McQu... Read More

The Anxiety of Inerrancy

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Mark Randall James

As a recent Baylor University study shows, it is one thing to say the Bible is inspired; it is quite another actually to read it. ... Read More

The Inclusion Imparative or, How I Came to Love Text

Posted on November 16, 2011November 16, 2011 by Lauren Tuchman

Inclusion of individuals with disabilities into the very fabric of our religious communities and congregations has been a passion of mine for many years. This stems in large part from the fact that I ... Read More

Education Under Fire

Posted on November 15, 2011November 15, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Education Under Fire on Blogcritics. Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to education…Technical and professio... Read More

Choosing My Religion

Posted on November 15, 2011November 14, 2011 by Yaira Robinson

There’s that metaphor of God as a mountain, and different religious traditions are just different paths up the mountain. For most of my life, I stood at the foot of this mountain, telling passersby ... Read More

Disability, Christian Theology, and the Proper Place of “Limit-ness”

Posted on November 14, 2011November 13, 2011 by Sarah J. Blake LaRose

Deborah Creamer proposes a theology of disability based on the concept that all people are "limited." When is this concept of "limit-ness" harmful to people with disabilities?... Read More

Love and Weight Loss

Posted on November 14, 2011November 15, 2011 by Jenn Lindsay

Weight. The very word is heavy, overweighted. Weight on my plate. Weight in my gut. Weight in my heart. Weight of the world. Heavy, heavy, heavy…it’s such a bad word. It’s something none of ... Read More