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Moving away from Jerry Springer: On Curiosity rather than Condemnation
“Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?” the stranger asked me in the Reynolds Club café. Students from across the Chicago theological consortium gather at the Reynolds Club t... Read More
On Interfaith Dialogue Efforts in Texas
This past year I founded a student organization called the Student Interfaith Dialogue. That might or might not seem much of an accomplishment, until I tell you it was on campus in the Texas panhandle... Read More
Jon Kabat-Zinn and Kierkegaard walk into an ICU
Jon: Let’s breath in, acknowledge our emotions, and observe. Soren: Yes, let’s do that. But what is the question you are willing to live for? I am a medical resident working in an ICU in Boston. M... Read More
Truly Gorgeous, Genuinely Unique Diversity
I grew up between soybean fields and corn stalks, two pet cows to my name and a gaggle of barn cats. I learned to write my name as a child for the sole purpose of getting a library card, and when my m... Read More
An Archipelago Is Better Than an Island: Community, Revitalization, and a Summer Well Spent
I love almost everything about being a Baptist – the emphasis on scripture, local church autonomy, and the radical, “low-church” ecclesiology have always appealed to me, and being raised in the ... Read More
On Memories in Aleppo, or Memories of Kindness
When I first entered college in Washington, DC, I was ecstatic about the many opportunities for interfaith encounters and activities. Coming from a comparatively homogenous city in Georgia, the idea o... Read More
Save the Date: State of Formation at the American Academy of Religion
We are pleased to announce that State of Formation will be hosting a workshop at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) this November. As many of you know, AAR recently approved ... Read More
The Trouble With Marriage
Many of the benefits that come with marriage make life easier for anyone, not just coupled people. If it's discriminatory to withhold them based on an accident of sexual orientation, it also seems dis... Read More
The Angel of Death and The Things We Need to Live and Die
I spent my summer completing a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education, which is an internship meant to educate and train chaplains. At the closing ceremony for my program, I gave the following brief refl... Read More