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Transformation and Nature-Religious Leadership
To be in a state of formation as an earthy person, a nature-religious person, is to seek a dynamic balance and to reconnect with a sense of the whole. Pausing for context: I am a twenty-three year-old... Read More
Black, White, East, West
Article first published as Black, White, East, West on Blogcritics. On April 23, 1912, a religious leader from the Middle East addressed a multiracial audience at the Metropolitan African Methodist Ep... Read More
Call for Submissions, Issue 12
Where does life begin and end? What role does the individual have to play in his or her own fate? Are we ever morally entitled to make decisions on behalf of loved ones? What does faith have to tell u... Read More
Review of “Interreligious Hermeneutics,” Eds. Catherine Cornille and Christopher Conway, by Madhuri M. Yadlapati
Interreligious Hermeneutics originated with a 2009 international symposium held at Boston College on interreligious dialogue. The second volume in Cascade Books’ Interreligious Dialogue Series, it i... Read More
Review of “The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other: A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology,” by Grace Ji-Sun, by Sheri Kling
In this worthy addition to inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue, Grace Ji-Sun Kim introduces the term “Spirit-Chi” and builds a strong case for her assertion that the Holy Spirit as present... Read More
the Burning Place
Our first day in Varanasi, four of us went down to the Ganges to see the ghats (steps). As we meandered around, we came to the Burning Place. A priest who is in charge offered to take us around the gh... Read More
We Need to Talk About Islam
Given the recent attacks on American, British, and German embassies by Muslim extremists we are confronted by a serious claim. By reflecting on a Redditor's post about Islam in the midst of a supposed... Read More
The Beginning of Men
Article first published as The Beginning of Men on Blogcritics. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adap... Read More
Let there be light
The disturbing recent news about the bloody protests in the Arab world incited by a video defaming the Prophet Muhammad remind me of a story associated with Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Sunday at su... Read More