Category: Featured
Tu Bishvat — The New Year for Trees
This article first appeared at http://judaism.bellaonline.com Tu Bishvat, the fifteenth of the month of Shvat, is known as the New Year for the Trees. Tu Bishvat is called such because each Hebrew let... Read More
A Response to Conservative Commentary on the National Prayer Breakfast
The far-right echo-chamber blogosphere has produced some interesting material in the aftermath of President Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Pundit Erick Erickson responded with ... Read More
The Grim Future of Interreligious Dialogue
If it’s true that more and more of us are no longer affiliating with a religion, and even those of us who do have limited knowledge of that tradition, how long will interreligious dialogue remain a ... Read More
Why We Still Need Religious Women’s Groups
In many congregations today, women’s groups function more like social clubs. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not against socializing. Some of the women’s groups I’ve seen offer valuable community to... Read More
If we didn’t withhold justice, they wouldn’t need our charity
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. – Augustine of Hippo About a month ago, I was driving home from work when I heard a news story about the hurricane that ravaged the Southern Philip... Read More
Wellness: Practical Faith
Wellness is something that all people need, yet not all people take up the responsibility of wellness and self-care. We live in a society that looks for the fastest, most convenient way to function ev... Read More
Christian Counterculture
A Google search of “Christian counterculture” nets almost 3,950,000 hits. While Youtube does not have nearly as many hits for that same phrase, there are almost 150 videos that I found expressing ... Read More
Goodbye Jesus, Hello… Atheism?
As 2011 drew to a close, a number of articles surfaced about Black atheists in the US – being Black and a scholar of religion, they caught my interest. Though the amount of recent attention belies t... Read More