Despite our many and varied reasons for running, there is an ineffable sense of connection between marathon runners as we journey from the start line. And for those 26.2 miles as we journey toward th...Read More
Last week I heard Dr. Joy Ladin speak at our local community shul. Dr. Ladin is a professor of English at the orthodox institution Stern College at Yeshiva University and the first out trans professor...Read More
It was an exciting weekend for me as an aspiring rabbi not only because I got to connect with friends and colleagues from across the Jewish environmental world, but because I felt in this diverse comm...Read More
I try to be as generous as possible. I try to listen first, think things through, give others the benefit of the doubt. But when someone says something so ignorant, so poorly thought-out, and so disho...Read More
My quest for an Eastern Catholic community in Greater Boston similar to the one I had been raised in as a child of Malayalee immigrants from Kerala, India, was successful just in time for Holy Week la...Read More
With the transitional voice of my adolescence, the following lyrics vibrated outward from deep in my gut: I wonder if the light from the lighthouse would shine… The rest of the robe-clad singers...Read More
Over the past few days, one three-word tweet has put the evangelical world into a tizzy: Farewell Rob Bell. The tweet came from John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN and ...Read More
This post argues that when we reduce the religious/philosophical/theological/political/etc. views of others to caricature, we not only harm them, but we also harm ourselves and undermine our own posit...Read More
In an earlier post, I offered a reflection on the types of inter-religious encounters that, although often well intentioned, tend to be reductive and ultimately unhelpful in the development of inter-r...Read More