Category: Featured
Elephants in the Global Jewish Room
The uniqueness of my Jewish identity could be one of the reasons conference organizers have invited me to participate. I expect there will be people at the conference who won’t consider me to be a ... Read More
IWD: To celebrate or to mark?
On the 101st International Women’s Day – like many women, I’m faced with a mixed bag of emotions. I want to celebrate our achievements, our gains, our pioneers – but I’ve also just retur... Read More
Point/Counterpoint: Expectations of Religious Leaders Discussed
Nayab, it was wonderful to read this thoughtful and self-reflective piece. The questions you raise are real and important and the struggles you wrote about—of how to live a religious life and be a p... Read More
On Masks, Masking, Control, and Lack Thereof
In Hebrew, the words for face, “panim,” and internal, “pnim,” comes from the same root and has the same exact letters פנים. This is precious poetry in one word, singing in ... Read More
What the Bible Clearly Teaches
The inauguration of the Center for Christian Thought at Biola University reminds us that evangelicals remain entangled with the intellectual habits of fundamentalism, particularly the assumption that ... Read More
An Invitation to Us All: The Coalition of Immokalee Worker’s Fast for Fair Food
Fasting when justice is absent, as with the CIW's Fast for Fair Food, provides individual bodies a time to change our rhythms, learn new cycles, to find sustenance in each other when we are unable or ... Read More
Jewish-Muslim Relations in the 21st Century, By Yehezkel Landau
Yehezkel Landau is Faculty Associate in Interfaith Relations at Hartford Seminary . This article represents his own views and opinions. Several years ago, I was invited to give a lecture to the studen... Read More
Dawkins vs. Williams: A View from Inside the Sheldonian by Sara Jude Berry
On 23 February 2012, I attended the debate at Oxford University’s Sheldonian Theatre between Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Arch-New Atheist, Richard Dawkins. The topic up for dis... Read More