Podcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?
We Will Not Save What We Do Not Love
Last week when I saw this article about nearly 1/3 of the Chesapeake Bay being a “dead zone” this year, it felt like someone punched me in the gut. I made some kind of audible groaning sound and r... Read More
On the Cutting-Edge of Interfaith Work: An Open Thank You Letter to the Sultan of Oman
The barriers to authentic interfaith relationships are great. But I write to let you know that Oman's investment in the CIP Summer School is possibly one of the most promising experiments in interfait... Read More
“Just Say No”
Article first published as Just Say No on Blogcritics. With all the talk about the debt ceiling, it would be easy to forget that America is enmeshed in military engagements in Central Asia, the Arabia... Read More
Magical Thinking in Politics and Religion
Okay. Let me throw this out there, and then let me know what you think… The TeaParty Republicans who are seriously threatening to rain down suffering in every direction through dismantling the wor... Read More
Book Review — “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness”
Article first published as Book Review: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander on Blogcritics. I thought that I understood racism. After reading Michelle Alexander’s, The New Jim Crow: Mass Inca... Read More
Oslo Attack Highlights the Dangers of Islamophobia
The mass-murder in Oslo last Friday was tragic. At least 90 innocents — many of them youth — are already dead, and authorities fear that the death toll may continue rising. Evidence is mou... Read More
Identity and Pluralism
This week, we are fortunate to send along the first “Topic of the Week,” culled and compiled by State of Formation’s Special Projects Committee. With a new topic each week, we hope t... Read More
The Problem with Freshmen
Here at Boston University, we are in the throes of our sixth orientation session, out of eight, for incoming undergraduates. When you matriculate about 4,200 undergrads each fall, it takes a while t... Read More
Interfaith Tips: Telling Our Stories
Engaging in interfaith work takes everyday religious pluralism to a whole other level. For this work, there is no roadmap, no graduate certification programs, no experts; there are just individual peo... Read More