Category: Learning
Hope Heals VIOLENCE
The dialog of the growing violence in America has been an on-going talk for some populations and segments of American society for most of its history. There are the peacemakers in society that have be... Read More
A Muslim and a Sikh Talk about Sikhism in the Aftermath of the Wisconsin Tragedy
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Omid Safi, Professor of Religious Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and one of America’s Muslim publ... Read More
Today, we are all American Sikhs
Re-published with permission from author. Original source: CNN. CNN Editor’s note: Valarie Kaur is the founding director of Groundswell, an initiative at Auburn Seminary that combines storytelli... Read More
Violence and Visibility: Let’s Find Another Way to Teach Religious Literacy
As a Wisconsinite, my heart broke this morning when I heard about the news of a domestic terror attack at a Sikh gurudwara in my home state. As a Christian woman, I was ashamed that this act was commi... Read More
Folly and Wonder: A Reflection on Summer Work
My neighbor says anything we plant in September takes hold. She’s lining pots of little grasses by her walk. I want to know the root goes deep on all that came before, you could lay a soaker hose ac... Read More
If God is bigger than us, then so is “God’s image”
One source of controversy in modern religion concerns the amount of deference given to the discoveries of science. (Note to self: cross “write world’s most profound understatement in one sentence... Read More![“Death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no [hu]man can elude him.”](https://i0.wp.com/stateofformation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IMG_9860-1.jpg?resize=542%2C340&ssl=1)
“Death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no [hu]man can elude him.”
The quote in the title above is placed on the lips of Sarpedon by Homer in The Iliad (Book 12, lines 326-327, c. 800-850 B.C.E., translated by Samuel Butler, 1898). It reflects the precariousness of l... Read More
It Looks Like the World Is Going to Hell: Global Warming and the Question of Hope
As part of the interfaith environmental work I am blessed to be able to do, I visit with people in congregations around the state about caring for the environment. In these conversations, I am almost ... Read More