Category: Theology
Standing Together: What I Learned with Muslims About My God, My Faith, and Myself
Overcoming My Fears with Faith Last year our pastor, Ryan Bell, invited members of our church to participate in a ten-week dialogue with Muslims from a local mosque. He explained that we’d be workin... Read More
The Limitations of Free Speech – Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the need to re evaluate the concept of free speech in terms of the greater aspect of understanding “the other.” So how do we get out of the conundrum that we... Read More
How Pregnancy Loss Shaped My Spiritual Journey
Life is a fluid, something that arrests us with wonder, and yet something we often take for granted. Nowhere is this dynamic more evident than in the moments of birth and death. One event in my life b... Read More
I’m tripping over you, God
In a Newsweek article grandiosely (to put it lightly) entitled Proof of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife published yesterday, Dr. Eben Alexander recounts a story of what it w... Read More
Compulsory religion: You can lead a kid to the altar…
Different religions mark coming of age in different ways. Jewish youth have bar or bat mitvahs; Islamic youth are expected to begin engaging in all the compulsory acts of their faith; Christians raise... Read More
Forgiveness from a Humanist Perspective
On October 2nd I was invited to present on forgiveness and reconciliation from a humanist perspective. It was an eight person panel for “Ahimsa Day” at Claremont Lincoln University. It... Read More
Participating in forgiveness
Last week, on our campus here at Claremont Lincoln University, we held Ahimsa Day, in collaboration with our Jain colleagues and the new Jain center on campus. “Ahimsa” means “non vi... Read More
Interreligious Angst
I’ve recently come to identify an area of experience which I am here naming “interreligious angst.” It first came up last year, when I had my first experience of it, and since has re... Read More