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Fear Beyond Fright: Jewish Responses to Tragedy
This paper seeks to provide a preliminary investigation into how Jews respond to fear-inducing experiences. In particular, it will focus on two of the most harrowing experiences of Jewish history: t... Read More
Rev. Peter Gomes, R.I.P.
Harvard Chaplain, Rev. Peter Gomes, died Monday (Feb 28, 2011). This post reflects on the profound role this man's work had on my own life and understanding of the Bible.... Read More
Response to Fear in the Muslim Tradition
This paper explores the role of fear in the Muslim tradition and the religious or historical sources to which Muslim can turn to in order to manage fear on both a communal and individual level. The ... Read More
Talking About Atheism and Interfaith Work at Religious Colleges
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post Religion. This February, as friends of mine flocked south to escape the unrelenting cold of Boston, I headed to the Midwest. It was my first colleg... Read More
Scrapbooking Jesus
One of the greatest risks when we enter interfaith exchanges is that we bring our scrapbooks of faith rather than the real, messy experience of it. And then, with our scrapbooks open on our laps, we [... Read More
From CD-ROM to Blogosphere: Religious Pluralism Comes Home
In February of 1998, I returned to the wintry campus of St. Olaf College, a small Christian liberal arts school in rural Minnesota, after a five-month global study trip. It was a bewildering reverse c... Read More
Dethroning Your Bully God
February’s State of Formation topic is bullying of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons. The recent and ongoing campaign is to impress upon the victims of bullying the message that â... Read More
Raimon Panikkar, John Hick, and a Pluralist Theology of Religions
Although many Christian pluralist theologies of religion have been advocated in different forms to promote the real value of many religious traditions, critics most often target the classic pluralis... Read More
Baby, You’re a Firework! – Humanism and the Hereafter
"I do not know how to prove physically, that we shall meet and know each other in a future state; nor does Revelation, as I can find, give us any positive assurance of such a felicity. My reasons for ... Read More