Category: Interfaith
How Do We Tolerate the Intolerant?
What do tolerant people do with the intolerant? We tolerate them. We ignore them. We insult them. We try to change them: By explaining. By demonstrating. By oppressin... Read More
Praying in Hebrew, Speaking in Tongues
The other day I was meeting with a friend and local Pentecostal minister (let’s call him “Diego”) when someone we mutually knew (let’s call him “Sam”) dropped by to... Read More
A Call to Prayer; A Call to Interfaith
Every morning for fourteen months the call to prayer woke me before the sun had climbed over the horizon. Every day, five times a day, the call to prayer rang out in Sirakoro where I was serving as... Read More
Loyola High School v. Quebec and the Implications of “Neutral” Pedagogy
On Thursday March 19, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released it’s ruling on the six year pending case of Loyola High School v. Quebec. Loyola High School, a private Catholic school, sought an e... Read More
The Work Compels Us to Interfaith
Managing Editor’s note: all Contributing Scholars begin writing by answering the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with those from different... Read More
Disability and God Talk
An earlier version of this piece was published here. I am passionate about creating truly inclusive and accessible Jewish communities in which all Jews can find a spiritual home, and in which we can a... Read More
A People at the Base of the Cross
If it exists with any legitimacy at all, it exists to serve the world around it. No more, no less. The Church’s mission is to bring grace to those who desperately crave it, whether they be (or becom... Read More
Can the Cross Be an ‘Inclusive’ Symbol of Violence?
In a recent post on his facebook page, Rev. Cornel West of Union Theological Seminary invited all people of conscience to join in a National Day of Mass Direct Action against racist state violence. Th... Read More