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Face the Music: On Singing, Specks, and Sand
I am a musician by training. My undergraduate degree is in voice performance, and after finishing school I worked for several years as a choral conductor. In recent weeks, I’ve wondered what busines... Read More
Dear Mr. Tyner, America: It isn’t Junk.
“If you touch my junk…” The watercooler story of the week is about how John Tyner revolted against a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screener who informed hi... Read More
Michael Vick and The Power of Weakness
To be in a true state of formation or re-formation is to be in a state of dispassion and humility.... Read More
“The Hajj Cries” – More Laughs Than Cries
As I start to write this post on the night of Wednesday, November 17, 2010, Muslims in Mecca are currently completing the last stages of the rites of the Hajj or pilgrimage. Two days ago on Monday aft... Read More
Baby, We Were Born to Fail
After dropping out of school when failing to complete a senior art thesis in my first year at Antioch College, I needed some direction in my life. Seeking the opposite of my previously unstructured li... Read More
A theological perspective on (a)theism in formation
State of formation… indeed! As long as we are, we are in a state of formation. Among those ancient sages (who remain with us in various states of formation) are Heraclitus and Siddhartha the Buddha,... Read More
Transformation and Religiously Pluralistic Identity
There is a famous anecdote from the Taoist philosopher Chung Tzu that goes something like this (translation plucked from an online rendering of the larger work it is taken from): “Once I, Chuang Tzu... Read More
(In)Formation: Putting Flesh on the Bones of Public Conversations About Religion
It was all I could do to keep from scratching my chigger bites incessantly as I sat in a white plastic lawn chair with about ten other people underneath a tent on a stiflingly hot, muggy day in the su... Read More
I’m Wondering If I Might Sit and Listen To You For a While…?
Last week, as I was driving from Georgetown, Texas to the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport, I noted that I would drive through Waco. As many know, Waco is now associated with the terrible events of 1993 whe... Read More