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How Hate Gets Counted
Re-published with permission from the authors. Original Source: The New York Times Co-Author: Prabhjot Singh Do American Sikhs count? The horrific shooting at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Au... Read More
“One Candle, One Life, One Planet: The Jewish Festival of Hanukkah and the Deep Meaning of Small Differences,” by Robert Pollack
How do we measure the importance of an event, the meaning of the difference it makes? As a scientist my answer is simple: the bigger the difference, the more important the event. By this measure the m... Read More
Should the Tolerant Be Intolerant?
If I am purposefully, actively engaged in interfaith work or some similarly open–minded religious pursuit, am I more mature, or “better” by some other measure, than those who for some religious ... 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
In Community Together
At one time people could have lived in relative isolation from one another, but even then, humankind across the earth was connected. Today, the Internet, mobile access, and social networking make our ... Read More
How Sikhs Handle Hate
Re-published with permission from the authors. Original Source: Religion Dispatches. Co-Author: Rajdeep Singh As we reflect on the massacre of Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wisconsin earlier this mon... Read More
Mayor Tonya Hoeffel’s Act Of Intolerance Towards The Sikh Community
Re-published with permission from the authors. Original Source: Huffington Post. Co-Author: Savneet Singh Less than one month after of the massacre of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Mayor Tonya Hoeff... Read More
Was the deadly Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin a mistake?
Re-published with permission from the author. Original Source: Washington Post. It has been one month since the deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., caught the attention of our entire ... Read More
Why Jesus’ wife matters to me
The writing prompt in this week’s digest to State of Formation scholars asked, “Does it matter that Jesus may have had a wife?” I was surprised by the strength of my own response: a gray, hard-... Read More