Category: Community
Face the Music: On Singing, Specks, and Sand
I am a musician by training. My undergraduate degree is in voice performance, and after finishing school I worked for several years as a choral conductor. In recent weeks, I’ve wondered what busines... Read More
Dear Mr. Tyner, America: It isn’t Junk.
“If you touch my junk…” The watercooler story of the week is about how John Tyner revolted against a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screener who informed hi... Read More
“The Hajj Cries” – More Laughs Than Cries
As I start to write this post on the night of Wednesday, November 17, 2010, Muslims in Mecca are currently completing the last stages of the rites of the Hajj or pilgrimage. Two days ago on Monday aft... Read More
I’m Wondering If I Might Sit and Listen To You For a While…?
Last week, as I was driving from Georgetown, Texas to the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport, I noted that I would drive through Waco. As many know, Waco is now associated with the terrible events of 1993 whe... Read More
Interreligious Dialogue, take 2
Why did an individual who has never blogged, tweeted, or facebooked (is this the term?) decide to apply to a new interreligious initiative that will exist almost exclusively in the online world? Great... Read More
Lady Gaga and the Autonomous Self: Who are we?
Though I would not necessarily laud all of her decisions as a performer and artist, Lady Gaga has surprisingly and quickly become one of my key reference points in my academic work as a theologian and... Read More
President Obama, Minority Religions, and American Politics
I recently attended a Diwali celebration in Connecticut. The event secured the major essentials of a second generation, Indian-American function: a late start [working to our advantage], a troupe of... Read More
Herring in a Barrel
In the urban Jewish neighborhoods of late 19th and early 20th century America (so I’m told), one thing you could always count on was that no matter the weather or time of year, standing outside ... Read More