Category: Interfaith
When Harry Met Wesley: Faith and Magic in Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford Alright, I admit it. I love pop culture. That’s probably why I enjoyed the references to the movie Alien cunningly embedded into the story lines of the 2018 cinematic bl... Read More
Lessons from a Past Life
Faith is something I return to again and again during these times. While our reality becomes more strange and foreign, when I am unsure of how to engage with our crumbling world, I turn to faith and t... Read More
Feminine Divinity//Divine Femininity
At a time when a feminist world seems very far away, I think about the ways in which my womanhood has strengthened and created me, how it has very literally birthed me into this universe, and how it i... Read More
Getting Beyond the Tent of Abraham, Part 3: Sharing the Burden
One of the greatest barriers to meaningful interreligious learning is the oversimplification, or ignorance of the internal diversity, of religious traditions other than our own. It comes out in the ma... Read More
Getting Beyond the Tent of Abraham, Part 2: Learning from Contemporary Paganisms
Welcoming marginalized traditions, including contemporary Paganisms, to the table of interreligious engagement is happening in pockets around the U.S. However, non-Pagans like myself can still strive ... Read More
“Go Down, Moses…and this time let Aaron do all the talking.”
Artwork by Aron de Chaves, Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Creechurch Lane, London, England Of all my high school classes, speech terrified me the most. In my youth, I had a speech i... Read More
Getting Beyond the Tent of Abraham, Part 1: Welcoming Marginalized Religions
Despite an ever-widening door to the growing tent of interreligious engagement, there remains work to do. Interreligious studies in the academy as well as the interfaith movement in the wider communit... Read More
“They’re Not Really Christians”: Acknowledging Oppression and Violence in our Traditions for the Sake of Interreligious Understanding
Interreligious dialogue often entails an implicit (sometimes explicit) attempt to categorize the religious other for the sake of comparison, conversation, and ease. For instance, in labeling a dialogu... Read More