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Class Consciousness: The Spiritual Cost of Unemployment
I tend to think of Buddhist practice as a way of cultivating a mind so stable that such storms leave it unscathed, and I often judge myself harshly when I fail to live up to that standard—when the s... Read More
Why I Love Church – A Humanist Confession and Battlecry
When I read The Humanist Manifesto for the first time while sitting in my Cambridge University dorm room, I knew that this was who I was – someone committed to a naturalistic perspective, with a cle... Read More
Not Theology, but Authority: Rob Bell and the Evangelical Institutional Establishment
The criticism of Rob Bell’s Love Wins is not about theology. It is all about authority. In case you missed the hubbub surrounding Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins, I point you to Sara StaelyR... Read More
Interfaith Leadership: In the Best Possible Light
We are to fear and love God, so that we do not tell lies about our neighbors, betray or slander them, or destroy their reputations. Instead we are to come to their defense, speak well of them, and int... Read More
Peter King Hearings: A Crystallizing Moment for the Interfaith Movement?
The hearings Representative Peter King recently held on the supposed “radicalization” of American Muslims are widely considered to be the most counterproductive in recent history. They sin... Read More
Sustaining the Earth, Sustaining People
It was an exciting weekend for me as an aspiring rabbi not only because I got to connect with friends and colleagues from across the Jewish environmental world, but because I felt in this diverse comm... Read More
Fill in the Middle Ground: Intertextuality and Inter-Religious Dialogue in 16th-Century Guatemala
There are, in fact, very few times in human history when two or more sizably significant groups of people encounter each other and neither one has any actual idea who, or even what, the other group is... Read More
Congregations and the Curation Nation
What would happen in clergy became, again, curators? Not so much the leaders of the congregation, but theological hosts to the banquet of resources that would enable congregations to live abundant liv... Read More
Making Sense of “God’s Love”
Summer 2010. I am in Indonesia. None of my doctors are on the same page, but they all agree that something is wrong. One Saturday my shoulder freezes at the joint and I can’t lift it more than four ... Read More