Podcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?
Organizational Highlight: Council on Foreign Relations
The CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative connects religious and congregational leaders and scholars with timely, expert resources on U.S. foreign policy and provides a forum for this community t... Read More
Sticking the Poor with Climate Change: People, Power, and Privilege
As I write this, I am sitting at my kitchen table while my ten-year old, home from school today with a fever, watches a movie upstairs. It is a bright, beautiful fall day in Austin, Texas—and part o... Read More
Staring at the Achievement Gap: Religious Education in Low-Income Schools
As a seminarian, I attended courses with two refugees from Myanmar preparing to return and serve their persecuted communities. Their literacy skills were dramatically low for the graduate level texts ... Read More
The Crumbling Argument against Women’s Ordination
Opponents of female ordination have an arsenal of arguments against allowing women into the ministry. One of the most well-worn comes from the Pastoral Epistles, likely written by a disciple of Paul... Read More
Should Everyone Study Theology?: A Response to Tara Isabella Burton
In a recent piece entitled “Study Theology, Even If You Don’t Believe in God,” Tara Isabella Burton claims that theology is worth taking seriously, even for people who don’t believe in God. Fo... Read More
A “Brand” New Way of Thinking
On a Saturday morning, I was sitting with a friend at our favorite bench and grading papers. “Check this,” he said, turning his laptop around for me to see. “Russell Brand totally nails this guy... Read More
The Time is Now: Interfaith Activists from Interfaith Families by Susan Katz Miller
When I search the internet for mentions of “interfaith,” I get news from two separate worlds. One is the world of interfaith “dialogue” and activism, in which people from different religions (... Read More
A Religious ‘None’ in the Middle East
When asked what I plan to do with a Master of Theological Studies – a question I encounter frequently as a recent graduate in a field many are unfamiliar with – my well-rehearsed, though honest, r... Read More
Sikh Ethics and Political Engagement
Originally published with Tikkun; Co-written with Dr. Prabhjot Singh As members of an underrepresented community in modern America, we find ourselves in the midst of a double bind. On the one hand, we... Read More