Category: Challenges
On the Park 51 Community Center: Why I am committed to building inter-religious relationships
Park 51 Community Center, AKA the “Ground Zero Mosque”, has, today, a single employee: a young woman named Hanadi. During a recent visit, I had the opportunity to hear Hanadi’s story firsthand &... Read More
Remembering the Massacre of Sikhs in June of 1984
Co-Written with Gunisha Kaur During the first week of June, Sikhs around the world commemorate a recent historical event: Operation Bluestar of 1984, a government-sanctioned military operation that re... Read More
The Veil of the American Church
W.E.B Du Bois writes in The Souls of Black Folk, “So woefully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of ‘swift’ and ‘slow’ in human doing, and the li... Read More
Open Letter to Seema Jilani: A Small Step Toward Taking Responsibility for White Privilege
Now, not all undergraduate students are receptive to hearing about white privilege, but for those who are, their experience is not unlike the experience of the pilgrims in the Christian story of Pente... Read More
Can Progressive Churches Avoid a Double Standard in the Public Sphere?
Earlier this May, the Minnesota state legislature legalized gay marriage, making Minnesota the twelfth state (in addition to Washington, DC) to recognize same sex marriages. A couple of days after the... Read More
Praying Down the Tornado By Chris Highland
I used to be a “prayer warrior.” One youth group leader in High School cried after I prayed one evening. “I wish I could pray like you,” she sobbed. I sure knew how to talk to ... Read More
Theological Matrix: Worldviews Exposed
Welcome… What is “the matrix?” The matrix is the space that we as humans develop culturally. We are all human social beings, we are born into community, a world that exists beyond us... Read More
The Spirituality of Learning
Christian Scientists think of angels as bright ideas. Angels are moments of clarity and expanded consciousness, moments of fresh vision and creativity, broadened perspective, and infusions of loving i... Read More