Category: Challenges
Mortality & the Intercultural Experience: Reflections on the Community of the Dying
Alphonso Lingis identifies the potential for genuine community (despite the radical difference that separates us) as being deeply intertwined with the experience of mortality. Inspired by Lingis's con... Read More
The Israel Forest Fire: Taking Responsibility
Over the past week, the recovery and clean-up of the forest fire in the Carmel region of Northern Israel that charred acres, burned property, and killed 42 people has gotten underway. It’s been ... Read More
On Civility, Discourse, and Elizabeth Edwards
I am not interested in talking about the stance of the church or its members this morning. Rather, I want to use this space to raise the larger issue of civility. Put differently, I might ask: “Is... Read More
Judas, Snitches, and the ethics of pseudo bravado.
K-Nice stepped through the wormhole looking more hurried than usual. He never discussed his age, but from his many first-person antedeluvian accounts, Gali had guessed that he was, well, as old as the... Read More
Stumbling Toward Vocation: A Catholic in Paradox or Just Awkward?
Of course, I live in what Catholics are fond of calling “paradox.” The rest of the world calls this phenomenon awkwardness.... Read More
Howe about Equality?
As the resident Nashvillian at SoF and someone who works at the UMC down the street from Belmont University, I am obligated to weigh in on the issue of Lisa Howe’s forced resignation from her positi... Read More
“Religion as a Force of Peace”: Guest Post By Dr. William F. Vendley
The contemporary Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt, has developed a compositional system that—reduced to its sparest minimum—consists of the dynamic interplay of two musical lines in a field of silen... Read More
On the Need for a Dialogue that Endures Difference and the Conflict between Presbyterians and the State of Israel
This week, SoF contributors were asked to consider responding to an article entitled, “Presbyterians Against Israel” posted last week by Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper in the Wall Street Journ... Read More