Harvard Chaplain, Rev. Peter Gomes, died Monday (Feb 28, 2011). This post reflects on the profound role this man's work had on my own life and understanding of the Bible....Read More
In February of 1998, I returned to the wintry campus of St. Olaf College, a small Christian liberal arts school in rural Minnesota, after a five-month global study trip. It was a bewildering reverse c...Read More
Although many Christian pluralist theologies of religion have been advocated in different forms to promote the real value of many religious traditions, critics most often target the classic pluralis...Read More
Last week, amid the slowing of protests and the celebratory atmosphere in Egypt following the departure of former President Hosni Mubarak, a debate emerged over the honoring of police officers alleged...Read More
This paper highlights practical examples of dialogue and collaboration between Muslim Aid and UMCOR showing how different faith communities make natural allies for the promotion and success of cross...Read More
This post argues that when we reduce the religious/philosophical/theological/political/etc. views of others to caricature, we not only harm them, but we also harm ourselves and undermine our own posit...Read More
In an earlier post, I offered a reflection on the types of inter-religious encounters that, although often well intentioned, tend to be reductive and ultimately unhelpful in the development of inter-r...Read More
Do you ever feel like you are on the right road, that you are making the right choice, and then, BAM! – you realize, you’re not? Yes, that just happened to me, again. I was hoping for a trav...Read More
Inter-religious Dialogue is understood as a method of peace-building—bringing people together to learn to live in peace — which is different than peace-making, whereby politicians and diplom...Read More