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The Black Survivors
Article first published as The Black Survivors on Blogcritics. How can you be sittin’ there Telling me that you care – That you care? When every time I look around, The people suffer in th... Read More
Where Do We Go From Here? Seeking Justice…
The news this week, like many recent weeks, has been full of stories of injustice, violence, misunderstanding, pain. As an American, there are plenty of stories within our national framework to choose... Read More
What We Could Have Done
That the band R.E.M.’s break-up and Troy Davis’ highly controversial state mandated execution would have taken place on the same day is probably an interesting coincidence to no one but... Read More
He is Troy Davis: He is Free
Over the last several weeks the story and life of Troy Davis has moved to the center of many conversations buzzing around me. As I delved deeper into his life, what I found was a story of an African... Read More
Finding Hope in a Society That Executed “Troy Davis”
Yesterday a brother named Troy Davis was executed for supposedly killing a police officer over 20 years ago. Though seven out of nine witnesses recanted their statements he was still executed. Over th... Read More
Taking No Pleasure in Death
Though I didn’t lose a leg that night, I did lose something else: a naïve belief that my body was somehow exempt from death. My time as a student chaplain in the hospitals of Oxford taught me to co... Read More
A Dream Deferred
Article first published as A Dream Deferred on Blogcritics. The Baha’i Faith teaches that an equitable and just distribution of wealth is essential to the prosperity and progress of civilization... Read More
State of Formation Featured in Association of Theological Schools’ “Colloquy”
State of Formation and the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue were just featured in two major articles for the Association of Theological Schools’ quarterly Colloquy publication, written by lea... Read More
The Keystone XL Pipeline: A Moral and Religious Issue
I did not travel to Washington D.C. a few weeks ago to protest the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House—and get arrested—as some of my colleagues and so many other ... Read More