Category: Challenges
Drinking the Dregs: Tepid Thoughts on Indecision
Sometimes I loathe how much my actions are based on the temperature gauge—my activism blanketed in a liminal state of dissipating warmth.... Read More
Best laid plans of mice and men
This mouse-and-man story is a chapter in my state of formation – well intentioned and increasingly in the gray.... Read More
Homos have a propensity…
My brother is a rock star. He is seven years younger than I and is the second author on two scientific articles (one in Advance Materials and another one in Cell). In the first article, he made an imp... Read More
Taking a Divine Breath
The topic for my seminar class on the evening of November 8th was “Forgiveness and Reconciliation.” We sat around the table that night discussing the various theological perspectives on the topi... Read More
As Iron Sharpens Iron, So Does One Religious Tradition (As Well As Atheism) Sharpen Another
If all truth is God's truth, we must be free to explore it.... Read More
The Ugly American Abroad
I spent last week at Agape Centro Ecumenico, an ecumenical centre in Northern Italy with roots in the post-World War II peace movement. I attended last summer’s conference series at Agape on Fun... Read More
The Apple of the Eye of the Storm
My spiritual journey began when I was 7 and I declared that I absolutely did not believe in God. I declared that God was a preposterous hypothesis, of which I had no need. These days, when I m... Read More
The Simulacra of Yoga
No one wants to believe in fakery. Whatever we believe or do, we want it to be authentic. In a recent post about the Hindu American Foundation’s statement on the place of yoga as a Hindu pract... Read More