Category: Community
Lighting up the Darkness
Is there even daylight in December? There are times when it feels like the sun barely rises before it sets again. Darkness can be beautiful in the countryside, when one can look up and see stars dotti... Read More
Tearing Down Christmas Lights: The Reason for the Season
Last Wednesday, protesters in downtown Chicago started pulling lights off the city’s newly-lit Christmas tree. Marching to decry the death of Laquan McDonald at the hands of the police, they broke t... Read More
Beautiful Resistance in Palestine
This summer, Abigail received a scholarship to join a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is... Read More
Religion in the Academy and in the Public
As naive as it may sound, I thought that I could learn more about Islamic Studies and history at university than at “Saturday” school on the weekends while at the mosque. The mosque lessons about ... Read More
Statues Will Never Be Enough
It was the summer of 2012. I was nineteen years old, working as an intern in Washington, DC—that swamp of politics, and humidity, and the slow-moving Potomac. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial ha... Read More
I’m Thankful For My Refugee Neighbors
Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and like many others, I am considering who and what I am thankful for. For certain, I am thankful for those near to me such as my parents, siblings, a new nephew, and... Read More
Who’s Afraid of Secularism? The Starbucks Red Cup Fiasco, Or On Being Christian In A Pluralist Society
By now, I’ve been seeing more than enough about the “controversy” surrounding the red cups at Starbucks infiltrate my Facebook newsfeed. Whether it is posts supporting the lack of Ch... Read More
How to win a religious debate: A step by step guide
On October 27th, dozens of students and academics filed into Sanders theatre at Harvard to hear psychologist Steven Pinker and law professor David Skeel. The event promised to be a moderated discussio... Read More