Category: Interfaith
Belief vs. Knowledge in Tax Reform
Dr. Ben Carson, a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. President, spoke to students at Christian-based Liberty University on November 11th, the day after the fourth national Republican pre... Read More
How to win a religious debate: A step by step guide
On October 27th, dozens of students and academics filed into Sanders theatre at Harvard to hear psychologist Steven Pinker and law professor David Skeel. The event promised to be a moderated discussio... Read More
How Social Work (And Secular Society) Colonizes Through “Religion”
“What I want you to think about next time somebody wants to make some vast generalization about religion is that maybe there isn’t such a thing as religion and that therefore what they say can... Read More
Reflections on Intersections of Identity with African-American Buddhist Lesbians
Recently I completed research on the psycho-spiritual experiences of African-American Buddhist Lesbians (AABLs) in the Insight tradition. One of my dissertation committee members asked me why I ordere... Read More
Doing, Living, Being Interfaith – the Parliament of World’s Religions
Last Week the Sixth Parliament of World’s Religions met in Salt Lake City, Utah. 10,000 people. 80 countries. 5 intense days of interfaith learning and love. It would be overwhelming for anybody... Read More
My experiences at an ISNA convention
Over Labor Day weekend, I had the chance to hear from and meet with an amazing group of people—a group of people who are striving for peace, education, and equality, people looking out for communiti... Read More
Heresy and Interfaith Dialogue
I am currently reading Medieval Heresies: Christianity, Judaism and Islam by Catherine Caldwell Ames. Reading the book has me thinking about how membership in a religious group is constructed in regar... Read More
The 2015 Parliament of The World’s Religions: The Tower of Babel in Reverse
The story of the Tower of Babel has always confused me. In it, humans are punished for working collaboratively together. But what kind of god causes confusion and separation, rather than illumination ... Read More