Category: News
Religious Ethics After Abu Ghraib
Last December, I had the opportunity to attend the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia. The Parliament seeks to promote harmony, reconciliation, and understanding in t... Read More
Recent Efforts within the Jewish Community on YHWH and LGBTQ Bullying
I posted about this issue earlier, but am revisiting it in light work being done by three Jewish groups in response to LGBTQ bullying. Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), Keshet and Nehirim are st... Read More
On Civility, Discourse, and Elizabeth Edwards
I am not interested in talking about the stance of the church or its members this morning. Rather, I want to use this space to raise the larger issue of civility. Put differently, I might ask: “Is... Read More
Judas, Snitches, and the ethics of pseudo bravado.
K-Nice stepped through the wormhole looking more hurried than usual. He never discussed his age, but from his many first-person antedeluvian accounts, Gali had guessed that he was, well, as old as the... Read More
The Presbyterian-Jewish Divide that Need Never Be
This article was originally published on the Huffington Post. Simon Wiesenthal was an inspiration to me as a Jewish kid growing up in America. Who in my place wouldn’t have been inspired by him?... Read More
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda – Spiderman
<<<SPOILER ALERT!>>> Last night I went to see Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway, (from the second row, no less). Significant controversy surrounds the show, which has provid... Read More
Howe about Equality?
As the resident Nashvillian at SoF and someone who works at the UMC down the street from Belmont University, I am obligated to weigh in on the issue of Lisa Howe’s forced resignation from her positi... Read More
WikiLeaks and the Sacrality of American National Security
This post originally appeared at Religion Nerd. It seems like everyday a new story emerges from the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks. In the wake of Cablegate,... Read More