Category: Social Issues
Should Clergy Advise Couples To Have Extra-Marital Affairs?
A couple weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine’s cover story, entitled “Infidelity Keeps Us Together” described the efforts of popular sex columnist, Dan Savage, to adopt a more tolerant attitu... Read More
The Substance of Things Seen
U2 and Lady Gaga--Social justice liturgically construed.... Read More
“The Audacity of Hope”
Do we dare have the audacity to hope for change in our very conflicted world? To create change? To make change? To expect change? To allow change? Yes, I believe we do. The Gaza bound flotilla from th... Read More
An Atheist and “The Impossibility of Religious Freedom”
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) -Although six years old now, this book covers issues pertinent to the present time- The ... Read More
Inkerfaith: What My New Abraham Lincoln Tattoo Has To Do With Atheism and Interfaith Work
These last few weeks, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about my newest tattoo — a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on my right shoulder. “Why Abraham Lincoln? Is it because there are rumors... Read More
The Psychology of Stereotypes: Can we ‘hardwire’ ourselves not to fear difference?
The Psychology of Stereotypes: Can we ‘hardwire’ ourselves not to fear difference? I was intrigued to read Daniel Tutt’s recent article in the Huffington Post, entitled “Neur... Read More
What to a Felon is the Fourth of July?
Article first published as What to a Felon is the Fourth of July? on Blogcritics. One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, Frederick Douglass was invited to give a speech to commemorate the birth of what... Read More
Exploring Houses of Worship
It is pretty clear to me that religious communities are groups of people who come together intentionally to serve each other, God (however God is known there), and the world the best way they can. Eac... Read More