Category: Theology
Ramadan Diary 1434/2013 Week 3 (part 2)
Day 18 – July 26, 2013 Prayer from Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him and his family) for the 18th day of Ramadan: O Allah keep me awake, in this month, to find and get the blessings of its mor... Read More
Ramadan Diary 1434/2013 Week 3 (part 1)
One of the things Muslims do during Ramadan is try to read the entire Qur’an over the course of the month. Each night, we try to read a juz’, or section of the Qur’an. As I entered week 3 of Ram... Read More
The Yoga of Ecology: A Day In The Life of the Green Wheeling Initiative
In my previous “Yoga of Ecology” post, I shared the truly brilliant and compassionate work of the Green Wheeling Initiative (GWI), a grassroots ground-up local food movement in Wheeling, W... Read More
“Chop Wood. Carry Water.” Holy Envy, Zen, and a Spirituality of Work
The Swedish theologian, Krister Stendahl, famously spoke of “Holy Envy” as that virtue of remaining open to aspects we find in religious traditions other than our own in order to admire them and ... Read More
Reza Aslan’s Jesus
Reza Aslan has a remarkable ability to make ancient stories come alive. I have assigned his earlier books, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam and Beyond Fundamentalism, in und... Read More
The Post-Colonial Method versus the Sociological Method in the Study of Religion: Top-down or Bottom-up?
In the current study of “religion,” two different methods have developed that are often in tension with each other. The first is the Post-Colonial Method (PCM)[1] with scholars like Talal Asad, ... Read More
What Can Be Done about the Gospel of John?
I’ve been struggling with the Gospel of John for quite a while. It’s a Gospel filled with beauty and poetry – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He w... Read More
The Yoga of Ecology: The Green Wheeling Initiative
My hands in the soil eco-theology transcending my nature-deficit-disorder Farm Yatra summer tour continues as I return to a place I called home for two very formative years in my life: the New Vrindab... Read More