Category: Community
The Yoga of Ecology: The Teaching Garden
In a previous blog exactly a year ago on the Huffington Post, I shared the philosophy of “simple living and high thinking” as presented by the eminent Vedic teacher/scholar A.C Bhaktiveda... Read More
When Islamists Change Their Mind
Cartoons today, Egypt tomorrow? Recently a Catholic friend of mine revealed that he is considering going Episcopalian because, as a married man in his 30s, he is sensing a spiritual and vocational cal... Read More
Moving away from Jerry Springer: On Curiosity rather than Condemnation
“Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?” the stranger asked me in the Reynolds Club café. Students from across the Chicago theological consortium gather at the Reynolds Club t... Read More
Jon Kabat-Zinn and Kierkegaard walk into an ICU
Jon: Let’s breath in, acknowledge our emotions, and observe. Soren: Yes, let’s do that. But what is the question you are willing to live for? I am a medical resident working in an ICU in Boston. M... Read More
An Archipelago Is Better Than an Island: Community, Revitalization, and a Summer Well Spent
I love almost everything about being a Baptist – the emphasis on scripture, local church autonomy, and the radical, “low-church” ecclesiology have always appealed to me, and being raised in the ... Read More
The Trouble With Marriage
Many of the benefits that come with marriage make life easier for anyone, not just coupled people. If it's discriminatory to withhold them based on an accident of sexual orientation, it also seems dis... Read More
The Angel of Death and The Things We Need to Live and Die
I spent my summer completing a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education, which is an internship meant to educate and train chaplains. At the closing ceremony for my program, I gave the following brief refl... Read More
Learning and Re-Learning to Keep Sabbath
There is something inherently difficult for human beings in finding time for rest and renewal. There’s just something in our nature that causes us to never be completely content and that makes it ... Read More