Category: Challenges
Craving a Craving: Global Warming as a Spiritual Crisis
Like the ancient Israelites, we should be humbly appreciative, but we complain. We should work together in common cause, but we isolate ourselves into separate camps. We should humbly, simply, and hap... Read More
Meet the press (what’s left of it)
“It’s 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing… Who do you want answering the phone?” Thus began a Hillary Clinton ad during ... Read More
Patriotism or Pentecost? by Eric Hendry
How the Feast of Pentecost was displaced by the patriotic celebration of Memorial Day this week.... Read More
Experiential Intersections- A Christian Learns to Pray by Drew Love
Prayer can be very difficult. I know this because many of my friends and acquaintances, from various backgrounds, have expressed to me their struggles with prayer. Some do not know what to say. Others... Read More
Gay Marriage vs. “Shariazation” of American Civic Life
For Buddhist Americans, the spectacle of public outcry and legislation prescribing particular genders to secular, state-ratified marriage on the basis of religion must surely be received as completely... Read More
Ela Merom Responds to Rabbi Greenberg
How can I respond in a way that takes into account the Holocaust in all of its horror, both the horror of the atrocious event itself and the horror of knowing that humanity could allow something like ... Read More
Jason Kerr Responds to Rabbi Greenberg
Rabbi Greenberg’s essay charts two parallel religious journeys. The first is his own, in which he shifts from viewing Christianity as a vehicle for anti-Semitism to recognizing its potential as a so... Read More
Who Is A Jew? – Letter to a Potential Convert
My understanding of Jewish identity has changed over time, and has included ideas that touch on many of the views articulated in our texts: Jews are people who go to synagogue, Jews care about social ... Read More