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On Teaching Religion at a Humanist School in a Christian Nation
At Kasese Humanist Primary School (KHPS) in Kasese, Uganda I have been assigned to teach English and Religious Education for the month I am volunteering here. This is a natural assignment. My BA is i... Read More
Jesus and the Moneychangers in the Scrovegni Chapel
In the summertime I visited Padua and went to the Scrovegni Chapel, dated 1305. In the past 40 years the frescos have begun to crumble, and curators have researched atmospheric problems in order to co... Read More
Hate Hits Home: When My Friend Became a Target
Originally published on The Huffington Post Last night, I received the kind of phone call that everyone dreads: a close friend was hurt, and on his way to the hospital. But the news got worse, as I le... Read More
Dialogue Sukkah
I finished my run and approached my house, where I discovered pine boughs in a large heap—about three feet tall, 10 feet long, and five feet wide. In the heavy rain, their needles glistened as I soa... Read More
UPDATED: State of Formation to feature Paul Raushenbush and top scholars in workshop at AAR/SBL
State of Formation Workshop: Writing for the Online Public Sphere November 24, 2013 | 2-5PM | Room: Hyatt Regency- Columbia |300 Light St., Baltimore, MD 21202 RSVP to honna@irdialogue.org by Novembe... Read More
Getting Serious about Institutional Listening
If you’re interested in religious education, service learning, or experiential education, you owe it to yourself to read Wayne Meisel’s suggestions on the questions that need to guide emerging rel... Read More
Sacred Spaces for a Transient Generation
I grew up attending an all-girls wilderness-focused Christian summer camp in Maine. Running through the woods, boating on the lake, plucking blueberries as we carried wood and water to a campsite R... Read More
Loving Courage to Worship the Gungod No More
I am calling for us to end our perverse worship of the Gungod. I am calling for us to end the daily slaughter which is the perverse liturgy that drenches our communities with the gore of human blood ... Read More
Can we call someone a bigot?
How do you know when you can call someone a bigot? Is it a matter of the words they use? At what point do we draw the line and exclude people from the conversation because they are ‘too far gone’?... Read More