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“Not the Jesus I Love: Waco Residents Perception of the Branch Davidian Conflict” by Janet Jensen
On April 19, 1993, the 51-day standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians at Mount Carmel, a compound located close to Waco, Texas, came to what the Waco Tribune Herald described as a “fiery e... Read More
In Defense of an Undergraduate Education
Bill Bonner's diatribe against undergraduate education at UVA in the name of Thomas Jefferson and Rabbi HIllel demonstrates the same lazy habits of thinking and writing that I try to drill out of my f... Read More
What I’d tell 12-year-old me
As a man reaches a certain age – the age when peers start losing their parents – there are lines of thought that start to recur whether he likes it or not. How many people are left carrying on the... Read More
“A Convergence of Faith: The Concept of Relation in the Work of Sara Grant, RSCJ,” by Stephanie Petersen-Corigliano
Is the radical non-dualism of Advaita Vedanta fundamentally at odds with Christian monotheistic belief? Sara Grant, R.S.C.J., argues that it is not. However, unlike her religious and monastic contem... Read More
“Hybridity of Kuanyin and Mary, Maternal Sacrifice and Salvation: A Comparative Theological Study,” by Jea Sophia Oh
What kind of life or living could be the key of salvation? This paper deconstructs the traditional understanding of sacrifice as the code of salvation, as many Christians have traditionally believed t... Read More
“Toward a Gender-Aware Approach to Abrahamic Dialogue,” by Virginia A. Spatz
Interfaith dialogue, in practice, frequently overlooks gender as a key element in faith experiences, despite academic recognition of gender’s interaction with spirituality, religious experience,... Read More
“The Female Divine Figure within Several World Religions,” by Dorothy Yoder Nyce
This article, with Mary the Mother of Jesus as a starting point, examines the female divine in several notable living faiths. To be fixed on one deity or truth claim can imply that one alone is superi... Read More
“Royal Righteousness in the Ramayana? Faithful Leadership in India’s Mythic Masterpiece,” by Benjamin B. DeVan
Reading revered, sacred, classic, and popular religious texts and stories together is one significant way to enrich inter-religious relationships. This essay explores the Ramayana as a Hindu resource ... Read More
My Jewish Voice in the Spectrum of Interfaith Narrative
The Jewish tradition has been rearticulated in response to many intellectual revolutions, from the rapid spread of Hellenistic thought by Alexander the Great 2,300 years ago to the invention of the mo... Read More