Category: Interfaith
In Defense of an Undergraduate Education
Bill Bonner's diatribe against undergraduate education at UVA in the name of Thomas Jefferson and Rabbi HIllel demonstrates the same lazy habits of thinking and writing that I try to drill out of my f... Read More
What I’d tell 12-year-old me
As a man reaches a certain age – the age when peers start losing their parents – there are lines of thought that start to recur whether he likes it or not. How many people are left carrying on the... Read More
“Toward a Gender-Aware Approach to Abrahamic Dialogue,” by Virginia A. Spatz
Interfaith dialogue, in practice, frequently overlooks gender as a key element in faith experiences, despite academic recognition of gender’s interaction with spirituality, religious experience,... Read More
“The Female Divine Figure within Several World Religions,” by Dorothy Yoder Nyce
This article, with Mary the Mother of Jesus as a starting point, examines the female divine in several notable living faiths. To be fixed on one deity or truth claim can imply that one alone is superi... Read More
My Jewish Voice in the Spectrum of Interfaith Narrative
The Jewish tradition has been rearticulated in response to many intellectual revolutions, from the rapid spread of Hellenistic thought by Alexander the Great 2,300 years ago to the invention of the mo... Read More
Craving a Craving: Global Warming as a Spiritual Crisis
Like the ancient Israelites, we should be humbly appreciative, but we complain. We should work together in common cause, but we isolate ourselves into separate camps. We should humbly, simply, and hap... Read More
Meet the press (what’s left of it)
“It’s 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing… Who do you want answering the phone?” Thus began a Hillary Clinton ad during ... Read More
Experiential Intersections- A Christian Learns to Pray by Drew Love
Prayer can be very difficult. I know this because many of my friends and acquaintances, from various backgrounds, have expressed to me their struggles with prayer. Some do not know what to say. Others... Read More