Category: Social Issues
Mayor Tonya Hoeffel’s Act Of Intolerance Towards The Sikh Community
Re-published with permission from the authors. Original Source: Huffington Post. Co-Author: Savneet Singh Less than one month after of the massacre of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Mayor Tonya Hoeff... Read More
Was the deadly Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin a mistake?
Re-published with permission from the author. Original Source: Washington Post. It has been one month since the deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., caught the attention of our entire ... Read More
Why Jesus’ wife matters to me
The writing prompt in this week’s digest to State of Formation scholars asked, “Does it matter that Jesus may have had a wife?” I was surprised by the strength of my own response: a gray, hard-... Read More
“Beyond Gay or Straight, Beyond Black or White, Beyond Christian or Jew: A Recovery of the Person as the Locus of Human Identity for Theological Anthropology” by Matthew Zaro Fisher
How does religion elucidate human nature, and how does this factor into the rich experience that is our national and global community? On the one hand we are all different. We all come from different ... Read More
What is Holy to Others
I do not pretend to understand how an asinine video like “The Innocence of Muslims” can drive crowds to violent and even murderous anger. Many commentators insist that the ultimate cause... Read More
Black, White, East, West
Article first published as Black, White, East, West on Blogcritics. On April 23, 1912, a religious leader from the Middle East addressed a multiracial audience at the Metropolitan African Methodist Ep... Read More
We Need to Talk About Islam
Given the recent attacks on American, British, and German embassies by Muslim extremists we are confronted by a serious claim. By reflecting on a Redditor's post about Islam in the midst of a supposed... Read More
The Beginning of Men
Article first published as The Beginning of Men on Blogcritics. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adap... Read More