Category: Community
What Are We Saying?
For me, this raises important questions about the power and significance of words. The words of prayer are so important that I don’t want to change them, yet they are often so problematic for me tha... Read More
Muslim-Americans and “We the People”
The recent events in Egypt produced many stirring images, among them those of Muslims joining hands so that Coptic Christians could hold Christmas mass unmolested in the wake of a suicide bombing outs... Read More
An Atheist with New Theologies
The Gospel of Christian Atheism (1966), and other works like it, have had a profound impact upon theological studies, to the point that if one were to describe the theologies which arose in the 20th c... Read More
Fear Beyond Fright: Jewish Responses to Tragedy
This paper seeks to provide a preliminary investigation into how Jews respond to fear-inducing experiences. In particular, it will focus on two of the most harrowing experiences of Jewish history: t... Read More
Response to Fear in the Muslim Tradition
This paper explores the role of fear in the Muslim tradition and the religious or historical sources to which Muslim can turn to in order to manage fear on both a communal and individual level. The ... Read More
Talking About Atheism and Interfaith Work at Religious Colleges
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post Religion. This February, as friends of mine flocked south to escape the unrelenting cold of Boston, I headed to the Midwest. It was my first colleg... Read More
Scrapbooking Jesus
One of the greatest risks when we enter interfaith exchanges is that we bring our scrapbooks of faith rather than the real, messy experience of it. And then, with our scrapbooks open on our laps, we [... Read More
Baby, You’re a Firework! – Humanism and the Hereafter
"I do not know how to prove physically, that we shall meet and know each other in a future state; nor does Revelation, as I can find, give us any positive assurance of such a felicity. My reasons for ... Read More