Tag: Belief
The Beginning of a Settlement — Dispatch from Palestine
Mahmoud’s family lives one Palestinian hill over from a newly-forming illegal Jewish settlement. Six Jewish settlers arrived about a year ago with tents and made a primitive campsite. All year they ... Read More
An Improvised Family: Yom Kippur with Rome’s Progressive Jews
Normally people do not go to Rome to refrain from eating. But it was Yom Kippur, and I was on my way to afternoon services at Beth Hillel, Rome’s new progressive Jewish community. My long walk to th... Read More
Buddhism>Atheism: How Religious Literacy Can Help the Air Force, Part II
Find Part I of this post here. Alexis de Tocqueville, a 19th century French historian, observed how Americans treated religion when he visited the United States. The longer he stayed, the more he real... Read More
Buddhism>Atheism? How Religious Literacy Can Help the Air Force, Part I
This is the first in a two-part post. Stay tuned for Part II. A few days ago, I visited my undergraduate university, the University of Southern California, and made a beeline for the Office of Relig... Read More
Being a Peacemaker: Speak to Them in Their Own Language
Managing Editor’s note: all Contributing Scholars begin writing by answering the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with those from different... Read More
Why Are There So Many Secret Atheists?
Recently I attended a meeting for atheists and agnostics. The primary purpose of the group, as I understand it, is to function as a community of support. To start the meeting everyone was asked to int... Read More
Streams Run Uphill
In an excellent new book, Streams Run Uphill: Conversations with Young Clergywomen of Color, Ruth-Aimée Belonni-Rosario writes about the promises and pitfalls of colonialism in her own spiritual jour... Read More
On understanding belief through experiencing diversity
I am not a good debater. It is not because I do not have my own opinions or beliefs about the things that are happening in the world or the way the world ought to be. Rather, my lack of debating skill... Read More