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
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
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
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
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
This year, two notable controversies have been brewing in Tennessee: a proposed bill that would forbid educators from using the word “gay” in the classroom, and a court battle to determi...Read More
Our Better Angels: Resources for the 10th Anniversary Commemoration of 9/11 Texts, Talks, Music from the heralded three-part series exploring Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions on Tragedy, Mourn...Read More
Last week when I saw this article about nearly 1/3 of the Chesapeake Bay being a “dead zone” this year, it felt like someone punched me in the gut. I made some kind of audible groaning sound and r...Read More
The barriers to authentic interfaith relationships are great. But I write to let you know that Oman's investment in the CIP Summer School is possibly one of the most promising experiments in interfait...Read More