Category: Leadership
Thanks a lot, Alan
Okay, fellow scholars…let’s get a roundtable discussion going, shall we? Any interreligious scholar worth their salt must address the dreaded list. You recall the list, don’t you? We can blame (... Read More
Why We Fight
This semester I’m teaching an undergraduate seminar course titled Faith and Political Violence: Perspectives on Religion and Terror in Modern Politics. With Thanksgiving around the corner and studen... Read More
Student Christian Movement – USA
About ten days before embarking on a 12 day trip to Atlanta to attend two conferences I got one of those out-of-the-blue emails that both clergy and graduate students are prone to receive. At first I ... Read More
President Obama, Minority Religions, and American Politics
I recently attended a Diwali celebration in Connecticut. The event secured the major essentials of a second generation, Indian-American function: a late start [working to our advantage], a troupe of... Read More
Why I am ashamed to be a United Methodist.
First let me make something perfectly clear — I love my denomination. The United Methodist Church‘s theology is historically grounded in a movement attentive to the holistic character of h... Read More
Vocation at the Heart of Formation
What a rich blessing it was to help host the Fund for Theological Education’s Leaders in Ministry Conference at Boston University, June 16-20, 2010. Having been an FTE Undergraduate and Ministry F... Read More
A Baptismal Promise
I was raised in the church. Like a good, cradle Presbyterian, I was baptized as an infant, went to Sunday School regularly, sang in the choir, completed Confirmation, participated in service trips... Read More
The Church of Mall
I grew up in one of the biggest mall towns in America; a commercial capital, another kind of religious heartland, where the faithful make regular pilgrimages from points far and near. The mall and t... Read More