Category: Social Issues
Life, Death and Everything In Between
This year, in our seven-person CPE group working at a large Jewish assisted living facility in Boston, we are taught by a United Church of Christ Reverend and my fellow students are Jewish and Unitari... Read More
The Soul of Unemployment
Previously published at Baha’i Thought Reading an editorial by Paul Krugman this morning got me thinking. Here’s a taste of it: “More than three years after we entered the worst econ... Read More
On Independence Day, A Different Kind of Revolution for Boston
If Boston’s complaint was once no taxation without representation, today it might be no rent increase without a corresponding Consumer Price Index hike. Case in point: The Consumer Price Index incre... Read More
An Atheist and God’s Brain
Book Review “God’s Brain” by Lionel Tiger and Michael McGuire Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2010 It is always interesting to see how those within a scientific sub-discipline speak about relig... Read More
Marriage and Interfaith Dialogue
No doubt we are all aware of the outcomes of the collaboration of Republican and Democratic politicians in New York on 24 June 2011 which made New York the sixth state (in the United States) to legali... Read More
How Does It Feel to Be a Question?
Article first published as How Does It Feel to Be A Question? on Blogcritics. I wrote recently that young Baha’is in Iran are denied the experience of graduating from college taken for granted b... Read More
Beyond Post-racialism
Article first published as Beyond Post-Racialism on Blogcritics. I recently watched a video of Ruha Benjamin, a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Boston University. In this video,... Read More
An Atheist and Sam Keen’s New Book
Book Review “In The Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred,” New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, 2010 Sam Keen Sam Keen, author of numerous books on religion and philosophy, as well as ... Read More