Category: Challenges
(In)Formation: Putting Flesh on the Bones of Public Conversations About Religion
It was all I could do to keep from scratching my chigger bites incessantly as I sat in a white plastic lawn chair with about ten other people underneath a tent on a stiflingly hot, muggy day in the su... Read More
I’m Wondering If I Might Sit and Listen To You For a While…?
Last week, as I was driving from Georgetown, Texas to the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport, I noted that I would drive through Waco. As many know, Waco is now associated with the terrible events of 1993 whe... Read More
Lady Gaga and the Autonomous Self: Who are we?
Though I would not necessarily laud all of her decisions as a performer and artist, Lady Gaga has surprisingly and quickly become one of my key reference points in my academic work as a theologian and... Read More
The Shifting Language of God
“God” is just about everywhere you turn. The word, I mean. Belief in God, trust in God. God-given. Godless. It’s a term that gets thrown around a lot, in plenty of contexts. The most interesting... Read More
From 21,000 Feet
I write this post tonight from an airplane, jostling in the worst turbulence I have ever experienced. The flight attendants suspended serving drinks and pretzels to strap themselves into their seats. ... Read More
President Obama, Minority Religions, and American Politics
I recently attended a Diwali celebration in Connecticut. The event secured the major essentials of a second generation, Indian-American function: a late start [working to our advantage], a troupe of... Read More
Babri Masjid, Park51, and the Possibilities of Sacred Space
Many people in university chaplaincy must have asked the same questions that gripped me in starting this academic year at the height of the Park51 controversy. How do we convert this situation into ... Read More
Herring in a Barrel
In the urban Jewish neighborhoods of late 19th and early 20th century America (so I’m told), one thing you could always count on was that no matter the weather or time of year, standing outside ... Read More