Category: Theology
Art for the Resistance
I haven’t been able to write lately. Not for State of Formation, not poetry, not really anything except for “WTF” over and over again on Facebook as new horrors emerge in the headlines from the ... Read More
Reading Christmas in Light of America and Aleppo
For Christians, Christmas is one of the most holy and anticipated seasons of the year, and we begin our preparations for Advent in November (or earlier) and continue the celebration through Christmas ... Read More
On Creating Holy Communities
Choosing to become a rabbi was a decision I made with an incredible amount of consideration and care. I wish to bring my particular passions, skillsets and knowledge to bear on some of the most import... Read More
It’s Time for Depth Theology/Thealogy: Perspectives from the AAR
The academic disciplines of Theology/Religious Studies and psychology are two parts of a symbiotic whole, and there is a critical necessity for these disciplines to embrace an academic cohesion. The k... Read More
Social Work as the Physical Implementation of Theology
Editor’s note: all Contributing Scholars begin writing by answering the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with those from different religious or... Read More
Religious Freedom to Discriminate: Unraveling Archetypes, Anachronism, and Apartheid for Our Collective Survival – Part V
What if it were no niggas Only master teachers? I stay woke (dreams dreams)…[1] – Erykah Badu Introduction As an Alice Walker[2] Womanist pastoral theologian, I draw on the lives of African... Read More
Notes from the NICU: Ritual Matters
I blessed more than one dead baby this summer. When you are working as an intern chaplain on a hospital floor that includes the Labor and Delivery Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the... Read More
Theology from the Hospital Bedside
This summer, Abigail has been completing an intensive unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), an interfaith professional training for chaplaincy, at a hospital in the Los Angeles area. In her CPE p... Read More