Category: Academic
2015 Biennial Utah Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Retreat: Including Community in Higher Education
This past week I was asked to present “Interfaith Cooperation in the 2015 Biennial Utah Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Retreat: Including Community in Higher Education.” I was honored to b... Read More
Julian of Norwich: A Vital Religious Educator in Action
Having to re-read Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Divine Love recently I was struck by a new discovery. I found not only a 14th century mystic re-negotiating gender and power, but also a vital rel... Read More
Career Path Interview: Interfaith Instruction in Higher Education
An interfaith friend of mine graduated this month with a degree in Communication and Civic Advocacy. Congratulations Peter! He had to interview a person working within his chosen career about their jo... Read More
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies in relation to Religious Studies and Theological Studies
The emerging academic field of interreligious and interfaith studies (IIS) has burst onto the scene relatively recently and will be, I suspect, coming to a college or university near you soon. Current... Read More
Religious Studies Can Help Save the Planet
Recently UC Riverside Religious Studies professor Ivan Strenski published a piece on the Religion Dispatches blog with a provocative question: can religion professors save the planet? He was respondin... Read More
Advent, the Mason Jar Mentality & the War on Christmas
In the latest edition of the Journal of Interreligious Dialogue, I wrote an article describing the ways in which civil religions become actualized and operationalized in the American South. Through se... Read More
Walt Disney’s Theology of Hope, pt. 2
Read Part I here. I truly believe Walt Disney was one of the great visionaries of the American landscape. I would locate him in a rather small handful of great minds that include Thomas Jefferson, Ben... Read More
Announcing: Presenters for State of Formation Workshop at the AAR/SBL AND Interviewing Eboo Patel
State of Formation Workshop: Writing for the Online Public Sphere November 22, 2014 | 2-4PM | Room: Omni Gaslamp 1 |675 L St., San Diego, CA 92101 With the American Academy of Religion conference only... Read More