It was an unassuming debate, the kind that takes place before everyone has arrived and you are still mixing sugar and cream into your coffee. A tantalizing mix of progressive social justice types and ...Read More
When I was younger my older sister would take me on midnight drives down the coast, inevitably ending up at the beautiful view from Mount Soledad. Mount Soledad has a 29-foot Easter Cross on public ...Read More
His eyes burned green and his hands shook as he gave me my first history lesson on the Six-Day War. Somehow at 22-years-old I had managed to find myself sitting at a moonlit beach restaurant in Aqaba,...Read More
You’re sitting at your computer trawling your daily litany of internet-check-in and networking sites, be them a flutter of tweets or tumblr-fulls of diggs and books of faces. There’s a link from s...Read More
"This is a time of giving and providing for those who cannot provide for themselves." Not an uncommon sentiment over the Christmas season. Words you're likely to hear in most church halls and sound by...Read More
Well this is my fifth post on this inter-religious site, so I thought I might share some thoughts on the topic. I’ve intentionally kept my first four posts tradition-specific. I’m a United...Read More
First it’s the sound of my breath entering my nose, a slight whistle created by my stuffed-up nostrils. Then it’s the cars rumbling outside, the vibrations passing through the window and catching ...Read More
It’s tempting to write year-end reflection pieces, or to predict what is to come. But I’ve become bored of these. Year-end stories are designed to focus on the sensational, the harrowing, ...Read More
As mentioned in Part 1, wherever the story of the birth of Jesus appears in scripture, Jesus is always upon Mary's bosom, effortlessly delivered and resting on her bosom, or speaking from within her w...Read More
One of the most interesting descriptions of the style and order of the Qur'an describes it as avante-garde, even more so than Finnegan's Wake! The first Muslims were probably quite aware that the birt...Read More