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On the Anniversary of Internment: Reflections and Truths
Seventy years ago, the United States government rounded up approximately 110,000 American citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry and forcibly relocated them to concentration camps along the Pacif... Read More
Opting Out of Interfaith Dialogue as Resistance for the Right to Exist
When it comes to interfaith dialogue and cooperation, it seems that not all faiths are created equal. My community includes a Umatilla/Nez Perce/Sauk & Fox indigenous storyteller and an Ifa pries... Read More
Review of “Understanding Interreligious Relations,” ed. Cheetham, Pratt, and Thomas (Oxford UP, 2013)
This book review was cross-published on CatholicBooksReview in September, 2015. Review of Understanding Interreligious Relations. Edited by David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas. Oxford Uni... Read More
One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur
It was raining at dusk. I decided not to ride my bike to the progressive Yom Kippur service on the Boston University campus. If I rode my bike, I would get too thirsty coming home and I wouldn’t ke... Read More
5 Things I Never Knew About People With Developmental Disabilities Until I Starting Living With Them
All views expressed in this post are my own and are written separately from community life in L’Arche International. In C.S. Lewis’s classic novel The Horse and His Boy, Lewis pens this classic qu... Read More
Blind Faith: Celebrities, Sexual Abuse and the Lack of Accountability
“Them girls knew what they was doing. They just out to get his money. I don’t care what he did. I’m gonna keep playin’ his music and I’m gonna party to it!” These passionate words were sai... Read More
First Fruits: A Theology of Privilege
Temple service once included the practice of bringing bikkurim to the temple—the first fruits that grow from the land of Israel, the land that the Holy One promised our ancestors. These bikkurim are... Read More
The Consistent Life Ethic in U.S. Catholic Discourse: Planned Parenthood, Abortion, and #BlackLivesMatter
In high school, I was the President of the Pro-Life Club for a year. It seemed like a completely natural fit for me—being in a leadership role on such a divisive political and moral issue appealed t... Read More
Interfaith Work: A call to action far from Kumbayahs
“Whosoever does righteous deeds, male or female, who has faith, to such God will grant a higher existence in the hereafter that is good and pure. They will be rewarded according to the best of their... Read More