Category: Featured
Superman of the House
This post originally appeared at the Good Men Project Magazine In 1987, just a few weeks before he died of cancer, my father recorded his final thoughts onto an audiotape. Among his slow, brea... Read More
Everything Matters!
Ron Currie Jr.’s Everything Matters! tells the story of Junior Thibodeau, a boy who comes of age with specific knowledge of the precise date of the end of the world: June 15, 2010. Junior’s knowle... Read More
The burning oíkos
In a world filled with violence, injustice, and hunger, what is at stake in the work of interreligious study and dialogue? This post explores this question through an allegory by Raimon Panikkar.... Read More
What is dialogue?
What is dialogue? We know that it’s not debate; debate implies argumentative or, before cable news, persuasive action. Dialogue is also not a simple recounting of current events with superficial... Read More
Tolerance, Dialogue, and the Intolerable
Some years ago, a new high school was built in my hometown. At the old high school, Mormon students had been permitted to leave campus during the day for religious instruction (“Seminary”) at a sm... Read More
After the Flood
After the Flood human society beings to rebuild itself. The population grows, migration occurs, and people engage in the task of constructing a city for themselves. Interrupting what seems like a rela... Read More
The Israel Forest Fire: Taking Responsibility
Over the past week, the recovery and clean-up of the forest fire in the Carmel region of Northern Israel that charred acres, burned property, and killed 42 people has gotten underway. It’s been ... Read More
Judas, Snitches, and the ethics of pseudo bravado.
K-Nice stepped through the wormhole looking more hurried than usual. He never discussed his age, but from his many first-person antedeluvian accounts, Gali had guessed that he was, well, as old as the... Read More