Category: Social Issues
Growing a string of PERLs: A report from the first year of Philadelphia Emerging Religious Leaders — Part II
Bringing in principles informed by my work in Faith-Based Community Organizing I entered the first full year of Philadelphia Emerging Religious Leaders (PERL) with the goal of building the small exist... Read More
God Weeps and God Delights
Rev. Nancy Taylor, senior minister of Old South Church in Boston, recently wrote a reflection for the United Church of Christ’s Still Speaking Daily Devotionals. In it, she addresses the seemingly r... Read More
Growing a string of PERLs: A report from the first year of Philadelphia Emerging Religious Leaders — Part I
Today’s emerging religious leaders are hungry to build relationships with each other, work shoulder to shoulder for social justice, and learn the skills of interfaith dialogue and collaboration that... Read More
“You Ain’t Never Had a Friend Like Me”: On Robin Williams, Suicide, Ultimate Concern, and Actual Hope for the Rest of Us, Part II
In reflecting on Robin Williams’s death, a conversation I had with a friend came to mind from a couple of weeks ago. I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine at work, when he menti... Read More
“You Ain’t Never Had a Friend Like Me”: On Robin Williams, Suicide, Ultimate Concern, and Actual Hope for the Rest of Us, Part I
*TRIGGER WARNINGS* suicide, self-harm, depression Over this past month, prompted by Ramadan, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a good person in the world. It’s way harder than... Read More
Enough of the “Nice Age”: Why Faith Communities Ought to Be at the Forefront of Advocacy for Immigrants
I love my faith community. But, in a lot of ways, we’re too safe. Granted, we are not unlike any number of faith communities populated by kind, caring people who genuinely desire to worship their Ul... Read More
Feminism is For You, Whether You Want it or Not
A new tumblr recently caught a great deal of media attention by asking women to share why they do not need feminism. In the wake of recent SCOTUS decisions placing the religious preferences of CEOs ov... Read More
Born on the 9th of Av: Misery and Messianism
From Monday night until Tuesday night, Jews around the world will observe a day which is, incontrovertibly, the saddest day of the Jewish calendar. We will fast for the 25 hours from sunset to sunset,... Read More