Tag: Baha’i
Project Conversion: Rebuilding the Shattered Mirror
A few months ago when the request came on the State of Formation email group for reviewers for a book called ‘Project Conversion’, my literary greed took the better of me as I rushed to get hold o... Read More
What’s the Big Deal About Interfaith Marriage?
I attended the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia. I was amazed by the preponderance of sacred fashion statements (the hats!), the number of New Age practitioners from ... Read More
Black, White, East, West
Article first published as Black, White, East, West on Blogcritics. On April 23, 1912, a religious leader from the Middle East addressed a multiracial audience at the Metropolitan African Methodist Ep... Read More
The Beginning of Men
Article first published as The Beginning of Men on Blogcritics. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adap... Read More
“I Don’t See Race.”
Article first published as “I Don’t See Race” on Blogcritics. Once upon a time there was a man on a quest to solve the world’s problems. He heard that there was a person who co... Read More
What is the Face of Racism?
“White supremacy is the greatest danger we as Americans face as a source of domestic terrorism, and one of the least recognized,” writes Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite at the Washington Post&... Read More
Faith, Race, and Terror
Article first published as Faith, Race, and Terror on Blogcritics. It’s mourning in America again. Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the blood of the innocent cries forever. We join our cries wi... Read More
Brown Like Her
Article first published as Brown Like Her on Blogcritics “More,” said my son as I listed as many “brown” people as I could think of. Grammy, Pappa, Aunties (including one adopt... Read More