Do we dare have the audacity to hope for change in our very conflicted world? To create change? To make change? To expect change? To allow change? Yes, I believe we do. The Gaza bound flotilla from th...Read More
Managing Director The Managing Director is responsible for communicating with and connecting the various components of State of Formation’s organizational structure (Journal of Inter-Religious Dialo...Read More
“I still can’t believe this is what I do for living,” I thought to myself as I walked out of the airport in State College, Pennsylvania. I was met by the Rev. David Witkovsky, Campus Chaplain fo...Read More
Critics of circumcision regularly hurl insults at the ancient practice. Calling circumcision “male genital mutilation” has become trendy, while calling it a “sacred ritual” or ...Read More
This year, in our seven-person CPE group working at a large Jewish assisted living facility in Boston, we are taught by a United Church of Christ Reverend and my fellow students are Jewish and Unitari...Read More
In this article the author reviews the context of contemporary American Christian experience, which is a thoroughly multi-religious, pluralistic context. The article argues for an approach to Christ...Read More
Article first published as Beyond Post-Racialism on Blogcritics. I recently watched a video of Ruha Benjamin, a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Boston University. In this video,...Read More
I am not this, consumed by flame; I am not that, washed in water; I am not that which drew air, nor am I that which walked upon the earth. I am the earth, I am the air and I am the water. I am the fir...Read More
What do qualitative research, legal testimony, and sunlight shot through stained glass have in common? All of these benefit from, even demand, insider perspectives....Read More
Something like the Master of Divinity (MDiv) program at Harvard—of which I am a graduate—obviously isn’t training students to be roshis, lamas, or any other sort of teacher in a Buddhist lineage...Read More