Category: Community
Interfaith Tips: Telling Our Stories
Engaging in interfaith work takes everyday religious pluralism to a whole other level. For this work, there is no roadmap, no graduate certification programs, no experts; there are just individual peo... Read More
Getting Stuck in Clay: An Interfaith Reflection
This post was originally published on Huffington Post Religion. This is my first trip to Europe. I’ve had the chance to rent a bike and tour around the beautiful English countryside that surroun... Read More
I Know I’ve Been Changed
Article first published as I Know I’ve Been Changed on Blogcritics. In 1987, a black man named William Roberts was concerned about the state of black men in America. Headlines at the time raised... Read More
Should Clergy Advise Couples To Have Extra-Marital Affairs?
A couple weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine’s cover story, entitled “Infidelity Keeps Us Together” described the efforts of popular sex columnist, Dan Savage, to adopt a more tolerant attitu... Read More
The Substance of Things Seen
U2 and Lady Gaga--Social justice liturgically construed.... Read More
The Need for and Importance of Dialogue of Life in Community Building: The Case of Selected West African Nations
This paper discusses dialogue of life under five main thematic areas. After a definition of dialogue of life the paper goes on to discuss dialogue of life in general, the need for dialogue of life, th... Read More
The Harry Potter Phenomenon: What a Post-Potter World Might Mean for Religion and Society
It is in most instances quite difficult to gauge cultural and generational shifts in society through the present lens. Social movements, political or otherwise, that we have witnessed throughout the a... Read More
“Coming Out Jewish”
Trembling slightly, I pulled the folded paper out of my pocket and opened it. I held it tightly; I needed that paper. On it were the printed words that would guide my dry mouth and racing thoughts thr... Read More