Category: Leadership
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
Reviving the Legacy of Sikh Women
My conviction and confidence as a young Sikh woman has been rooted in my Sikhi from day one. Growing up in a large family where I was a young girl with a brother and many male cousins, I never noticed... Read More
Messiah Interrupted: Susanna’s #MeToo Moment
For over a decade now, my wife and I have attended the seasonal choral presentation of Handel’s Messiah at a church in the Fort Worth Arts District. I love the amazing musicality of each movement. B... Read More
What Does It Mean to be (Inter)Religiously Literate?
There is little debate over whether religious literacy should be a core competency in higher education programs and courses in the emerging interdisciplinary field of interreligious and interfaith st... Read More
Interreligious Wherewithal: Cultivating a Leadership Virtue
Consider the following scenarios: The company picnic serves only bratwursts and hot dogs as its main course. The hospice care facility admits its first Buddhist patient. Sixteen Muslim employees abrup... Read More
“Rabba?” The Orthodox Union Grapples with the Possibility of Female Rabbis
The recent decision by the Orthodox Union (OU) to mandate that female members of the Orthodox community cannot serve as clergy has been making headlines and prompting discussions of the correct roles ... Read More
Dispatch from the Lifejacket Graveyard near Eftalou Beach in Lesvos Greece
There is a “lifejacket graveyard” on the island of Lesvos in Greece, where Syrian and Afghani refugees flee from wars, departing from the Turkish shores 4 kilometers away. This is where ad... Read More