Category: Social Issues
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
On the Need for a Dialogue that Endures Difference and the Conflict between Presbyterians and the State of Israel
This week, SoF contributors were asked to consider responding to an article entitled, “Presbyterians Against Israel” posted last week by Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper in the Wall Street Journ... Read More
Freedom Isn’t Free
Do we have free will? The question is more than just an exercise in navel gazing. We inhabit a world full of coercive force. Are we free to step outside of the cycle of hedonism and domination? ... Read More
Drinking the Dregs: Tepid Thoughts on Indecision
Sometimes I loathe how much my actions are based on the temperature gauge—my activism blanketed in a liminal state of dissipating warmth.... Read More
Nature vs. Culture?
This week in our year-long class on Exodus our discussion focused on Moshe’s identity struggle as played out by his early forays out into the broader world, being incensed by the injustice all aroun... Read More
Homos have a propensity…
My brother is a rock star. He is seven years younger than I and is the second author on two scientific articles (one in Advance Materials and another one in Cell). In the first article, he made an imp... Read More
Taking a Divine Breath
The topic for my seminar class on the evening of November 8th was “Forgiveness and Reconciliation.” We sat around the table that night discussing the various theological perspectives on the topi... Read More
“Another Way to Be Alive” – Yearning for E.T.
Finally, all secrets would be revealed. Mulder and Scully would be vindicated, and the Truth that was once "Out There" would burst into the public domain. Courtesy of NASA, today we were to receive of... Read More