Category: Featured
Finding Jesus at the Texas-Mexico Border
It was cold and windy on the last morning of our trip to the Rio Grande Valley. We sat at a wooden table toward the back of the restaurant, warming ourselves with coffee and eating breakfast tacos. Ci... Read More
Mourning the Crimes of Thanksgiving
We recently celebrated a Thanksgiving service in observance of the national American holiday at my church. As we sung our way through several hymns, I felt more troubled than grateful. The words to th... Read More
State of Formation Today at the AAR/SBL Gathering
Earlier today, at the annual meeting for AAR/SBL, current and prospective Contributing Scholars gathered to discuss the process of articulating their personal perspectives and set of beliefs online. B... Read More
Unrateable Terrors
I help teach a university course on The Holocaust in Historical Context. It is, it should be, impossible to remain unaffected by immersive study of Western Antisemitism and how religious, economic, po... Read More
On Being Seventy Nations and One
Our sages teach us that there are seventy nations in the world (BT Sukkot 55b). They derive this concept from Genesis, in which the list of nations which descend from Noah is tallied up to seventy. Th... Read More
Whisper Down the Lane: Religious Language Edition
I believe that sharing the important aspects of one’s beliefs and traditions is an essential part of self-expression. We should all be taught how to communicate our religion or lifestance effect... Read More
Military Service and Left-Hand Paths
Veterans Day will be observed this year on Monday, Nov. 11, and as I do every year, I’ll first spend some time fretting over whether there should be an apostrophe somewhere in that name, and the... Read More
Organizational Highlight: Council on Foreign Relations
The CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative connects religious and congregational leaders and scholars with timely, expert resources on U.S. foreign policy and provides a forum for this community t... Read More