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Where No One Is Getting Scooped: Media Neglect of Grassroots Organizations in the Coverage of International Events
I have a challenge for you. Name all of the relief, humanitarian, or justice-oriented NGOs that you can. Could you name a few? Good! How many of you thought of OXFAM, UNICEF, Red Cross, United Way, Am... Read More
Understanding Calvinism (A Book Review on: The Joy of Calvinism By Greg Forster)
Elect or not elect, that is the question. For several years, the question of Calvinism and Arminianism has plagued my mind. By way of introduction, Calvinism is the Christian reformed belief system t... Read More
Family, Like Faith, Is What You Make It
I have launched a campaign to have all of my loved ones move to New York City. Ideally, they’ll all move to Queens (one of the most diverse counties in the country!), but I’ll take any borough rea... Read More
Where All Ways Meet
I’ve been finishing up a field education placement at the Waysmeet Center, the United Campus Ministry to the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Waysmeet strives to be an interfaith or multifaith... Read More
The Power of Contentment
There is a force so strong it threatens to destroy our nation, society, and the Earth itself. Many of the major religions have warned us against this force and offered advice on how to avoid this pitf... Read More
To Post or Not to Post: Interfaith Activism Online
Oh, the internet. And the lingo—and dregs—of the internet. Trolls. Flame wars. Click-baiting. Recently, I’ve been having a lot of conversations with people about the value of social media. I’m... Read More
In the Strangle of Abuse: The Ethical Dilemma of Hero and Crook
Over the past several years, a moral and ethical dilemma has come up: how do we respond to the writings and works of great public heroes who have made significant contributions to their field of study... Read More
Religious Literacy for a Fearful and Violent World
In February, I had the great pleasure of co-presenting a workshop at the DC Interfaith Leaders Summit with Amber Hacker, the Alumni Director for Interfaith Youth Core. In our workshop we encouraged at... Read More
Reflections on Holocaust Education and Highlighting Multifaceted History
This is the final reflection piece from the visit that a group of State of Formation Scholars made to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum this spring. Read the other pieces here, here and here... Read More