Category: Featured
Sikhs and Civil Rights: Standing on the Shoulders of Dr. King
This past Friday, the White House hosted the first-ever policy briefing on Sikh civil rights issues. Amardeep Singh, Director of Programs for the Sikh Coalition and Commissioner for the White House In... Read More
Call for Submissions: Religion and Politics
Call for Submissions for the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ Issue 11: Religion & Politics Given the undeniable impact of political affairs upon religious matters and of religion upon such ... Read More
A Faith Pretended: the Path at UN Rio+20
Currently in Rio de Janeiro, over 50,000 people have congregated to take part in the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainability and Poverty Eradication. Over the past ten days since the conference began t... Read More
“Living into Interfaith” By Martin Davis
The trees surrounding All Saints Church, like the driveway weaving around them, were frozen. A dusting of snow atop the ice made people’s walks from their cars to the church’s side door precarious... Read More
More Immigrants, Please
Cross-posted at my personal blog. The AP is reporting that the Obama administration will stop deporting youths who are DREAM Act eligible. This is unambiguously good news unless you’re upset that a ... Read More
“Not the Jesus I Love: Waco Residents Perception of the Branch Davidian Conflict” by Janet Jensen
On April 19, 1993, the 51-day standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians at Mount Carmel, a compound located close to Waco, Texas, came to what the Waco Tribune Herald described as a “fiery e... Read More
In Defense of an Undergraduate Education
Bill Bonner's diatribe against undergraduate education at UVA in the name of Thomas Jefferson and Rabbi HIllel demonstrates the same lazy habits of thinking and writing that I try to drill out of my f... Read More
What I’d tell 12-year-old me
As a man reaches a certain age – the age when peers start losing their parents – there are lines of thought that start to recur whether he likes it or not. How many people are left carrying on the... Read More