Category: Challenges
He is Troy Davis: He is Free
Over the last several weeks the story and life of Troy Davis has moved to the center of many conversations buzzing around me. As I delved deeper into his life, what I found was a story of an African... Read More
Finding Hope in a Society That Executed “Troy Davis”
Yesterday a brother named Troy Davis was executed for supposedly killing a police officer over 20 years ago. Though seven out of nine witnesses recanted their statements he was still executed. Over th... Read More
Taking No Pleasure in Death
Though I didn’t lose a leg that night, I did lose something else: a naïve belief that my body was somehow exempt from death. My time as a student chaplain in the hospitals of Oxford taught me to co... Read More
A Dream Deferred
Article first published as A Dream Deferred on Blogcritics. The Baha’i Faith teaches that an equitable and just distribution of wealth is essential to the prosperity and progress of civilization... Read More
The Keystone XL Pipeline: A Moral and Religious Issue
I did not travel to Washington D.C. a few weeks ago to protest the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House—and get arrested—as some of my colleagues and so many other ... Read More
Mysticism and Religious Dialogue: A Lesson from Howard Thurman
One of the first things you learn at Seminary is that whoever wrote Ecclesiastes was right; there is truly “nothing new under the sun.” Just about any theological argument you can think ... Read More
Unbelievers and Liberal Religious Persons of the World: UNITE!
In the world of contemporary unbelief the differences between “liberal,” “moderate,” and “conservative” forms of religion are often overlooked. The subtle nuances that distinguish libera... Read More
The First Conversion (A Reflection) by Ryan McLaughlin
In the gospel of John, Jesus is brought before the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate on charges of political crimes. The author constantly depicts Pilate as attempting to “wash his hands” of the situat... Read More