Category: Interfaith
Kicked Out, A Review: Part One
Pulling together first-person narratives from current and former homeless and kicked-out queer and trans* youth,[1] Sassafras Lowrey’s (Ed.) Kicked Out (Homofactus Press, 2010) is an remarkab... Read More
Identity or Value?: On Chris Stedman’s “Faitheist” and Religious Monuments
When a friend gave me blogger Chris Stedman’s new book Faitheist, I was skeptical at first. The quick, attention-grabbing writing that makes for a good blog post or op-ed column can feel flippant an... Read More
Prayers of the Faithful
Praying together is a rich and complex business. Community interfaith worship services, seeking to offend no one, are often unsatisfying and bland. Community memorial services in the United States oft... Read More
Faith Line Protestants is Re-Launching Today
Blog seeks to continue dialogue around Christians and interfaith cooperation Faith Line Protestants (FLP), a blog founded by Greg Damhorst and Cameron Nations, will re-launch after nearly nine months ... Read More
Security and Privacy; Safety and Trust
Camped out up the trail from his house in Eastern Kentucky, underneath a makeshift lean-to honoring Sukkot, Chad and I had one of our most personal conversations. In broad terms that are appropriate t... Read More
Understanding Ministry as Spiritual Entrepreneurship
I recently completed my first year in the University of Chicago’s Master of Divinity Program. All year, we have been exploring the question “What is Ministry?” I have struggled to define ministr... Read More
Dialogue that Repairs
Nigerian author Chimemanda Adichie gave a TED talk called “The danger of a single story” where she describes how we create a single story about a person, a people, or a whole country. It is do... Read More
Interfaith in a Technological World
Last week, I read an opinion piece in the New York Times by Jonathan Safran Foer titled “How Not to Be Alone.” In it, Foer discusses some of the ramifications of the recent developments in technol... Read More