Category: Featured
Zion in Perpetuity: The Limits and Reaches of Cultural Particularity
Many of the world’s religions find their start within a position of cultural particularity, being centered upon the idea of a chosen people, chosen land, chosen language, etc. As these religions... Read More
It’s Just a Cartoon. Right?
Listening to National Public Radio while you’re driving can be hazardous. Once again I almost drove off the road. The reporter was talking about a fourteen year old girl in Pakistan, hunted do... Read More
Malala Yousufsai: A Voice of Faith for Youth, Women, and Humanity
Malala Yousufsai is a 14 year-old Pakistani girl who has raised her voice, loud and clear, for the right of women’s access to education. Her defiant activism openly challenged the narrow minds of th... Read More
“A Dialogical Theism: Francis X. Clooney’s Comparative Theology as a Resource for Interreligious Models of Ultimate Reality,” by Richard Hanson
Francis X. Clooney is a seminal figure in the emerging approach to religious diversity known as Comparative Theology. Much of his work in this field has been concerned with engaging particular texts f... Read More
Accessing Mystery through Dialogue
Some of my favorite experiences in graduate school are the periodic instances in which a statement by a professor is greeted with a gasp of surprise from the class. To give a little backdrop, I am cu... Read More
Standing Together: What I Learned with Muslims About My God, My Faith, and Myself
Overcoming My Fears with Faith Last year our pastor, Ryan Bell, invited members of our church to participate in a ten-week dialogue with Muslims from a local mosque. He explained that we’d be workin... Read More
How Pregnancy Loss Shaped My Spiritual Journey
Life is a fluid, something that arrests us with wonder, and yet something we often take for granted. Nowhere is this dynamic more evident than in the moments of birth and death. One event in my life b... Read More
I’m tripping over you, God
In a Newsweek article grandiosely (to put it lightly) entitled Proof of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife published yesterday, Dr. Eben Alexander recounts a story of what it w... Read More