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Online Clergy In the Age of I-everything
This past week, The Jewish Daily Forward published an article entitled, “Online Ordained Rabbis Grab Pulpits.” This article profiles several synagogues who, in this difficult economic climate, hav... Read More
Why Are You Here?
Why are you here? It is an ambiguous statement because it relates to both your ultimate existence and life here on this earth, but it could also be a question in reference to a contextual situation. W... Read More
Engaging Culture: What Angus T. Jones’s Conversion Means for Seventh-Day Adventists
It’s been a strange week in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Angus T. Jones, who plays the character Jake in the television hit Two and a Half Men, gave a testimony in a two part Youtube video of h... Read More
The Presence and Absence of Women: Reflections Upon The Rape of Dinah
In this week’s parsha, Parashat Vayishlach, we read one of the Torah’s most difficult and upsetting narratives—the rape of Dinah, the only daughter born to Jacob and Leah, by Shechem, the son of... Read More
Love Those Whom You Study: the Legacy of Sarah Hammond and the Ethic of Critical Empathy
Last Thanksgiving, the field of academic religious studies lost one its brightest young luminaries. Sarah Hammond had just begun her career as a professor of American religious history at the College ... Read More
Hawaii the Beautiful and the Truth About Militarization and Colonization
Last week I was privileged to visit the beautiful island O’ahu in Hawaii. On Tuesday I volunteered with a friend of a friend at the ocean; they say it was actually a pond! For 3 and a-half hours... Read More
Racism and Pluralism: Two Sides of an American Coin
It is an early Tuesday morning and the sun has just peeked from behind the mountains in the not-so-distant backdrop of my classroom. The course is Inter-Religious Dialogue and Leadership, and today’... Read More
The Triple Goddess: India, the Ganges, and the Maiden Path
The solo journey is an archetype across myths, cultures, and religious traditions. This past year, I took my own earth-spiritualist, goddess-focused, pilgrimage-journey in India. Preparation involved ... Read More
The Spiritually Urgent Response To Our Ecological Crisis
Continuing my series on being “A Yogi at Union” with an exploration on the need for an urgent and compassionate call from the spiritual/theological tradition concerning our existential ec... Read More