Category: Featured
S.A.D. Lights and Advent Candles: What is the purpose of religion?
I suffer from situational depression, and it’s called life. Despite our different religious traditions we can all affirm that death is inevitable, loss is frequent, and life can be unspeakably painf... Read More
Howe about Equality?
As the resident Nashvillian at SoF and someone who works at the UMC down the street from Belmont University, I am obligated to weigh in on the issue of Lisa Howe’s forced resignation from her positi... Read More
WikiLeaks and the Sacrality of American National Security
This post originally appeared at Religion Nerd. It seems like everyday a new story emerges from the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks. In the wake of Cablegate,... Read More
“Religion as a Force of Peace”: Guest Post By Dr. William F. Vendley
The contemporary Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt, has developed a compositional system that—reduced to its sparest minimum—consists of the dynamic interplay of two musical lines in a field of silen... Read More
On the Need for a Dialogue that Endures Difference and the Conflict between Presbyterians and the State of Israel
This week, SoF contributors were asked to consider responding to an article entitled, “Presbyterians Against Israel” posted last week by Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper in the Wall Street Journ... Read More
Drinking the Dregs: Tepid Thoughts on Indecision
Sometimes I loathe how much my actions are based on the temperature gauge—my activism blanketed in a liminal state of dissipating warmth.... Read More
Future Religious and Ethical Leaders Ask The Hard Questions — Together
This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post Religion. “‘Thou shalt not’ might reach the head, but it takes ‘Once upon a time’ to reach the heart.” So said ... Read More
Best laid plans of mice and men
This mouse-and-man story is a chapter in my state of formation – well intentioned and increasingly in the gray.... Read More