Category: Interfaith
Jews and Muslims in America: More in Common than We Think
Contrary to common assumptions, many Jewish and Muslim Americans enjoy warm relations. Yet we are only beginning to understand how and why this is so. A Gallup report released last week goes a long wa... Read More
Why I Stopped Observing Ramadan: A Unitarian Universalist’s Search for Spiritual Practice
As we enter the second week of Ramadan, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world continue to fast as a prescribed spiritual practice in the Islamic faith tradition. Last year, as a part of an ... Read More
Dear Religious Americans: How Many Atheists Do You Know?
For the last several years, my work as an interfaith activist has been largely defined by a single question: “Wait — you do interfaith work, and you’re an atheist?!” That quest... Read More
Who Would Jesus Incarcerate?
Article first published as Who Would Jesus Incarcerate? on Blogcritics. Evangelical activist and author Jim Wallis recently framed debate about our nation’s debt as a potential “moral defa... Read More
Your books, your reflections: The frames we use for our learning
From Frankenstein to The New Jim Crow and Whose Gospel, you delved into the questions that shape your work as communal leaders. I am left with questions about what frames religious and ethical leaders... Read More
An Atheist and Franz Kafka’s “The Castle”
This was first presented as “The Power of Kafka’s Castle,” at the Conference on Retaliation, California State University Fullerton, January 28, 2011. It was later revised and presented as “K... Read More
Museum or Memorial, and Why It Matters: Thoughts on Religious Symbolism
Should the 9/11 cross be housed at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum? Ultimately, it's a question of symbolic function...... Read More
Hindu Community Makes Its White House Debut
Hinduism is hardly new to the United States. Swami Vivekenanda is thought to have first introduced it when he visited as part of the World’s Parliament of Religions at the Chicago World’s ... Read More