Tag: Education
From Just Us To All Of Us
I am not sure if awe inspiring authentic communities can be defined, but recent travels lead me to believe that I might know them when I see them. To truly witness such community is to become a part... Read More
Academia Meets Practical Life – The Wedding
The day that I discovered that all of my friends were Christian was the day that I began to feel strangely uncomfortable. To be fair, I have spent my entire life in Christian settings – I grew up ... Read More
Staring at the Achievement Gap: Religious Education in Low-Income Schools
As a seminarian, I attended courses with two refugees from Myanmar preparing to return and serve their persecuted communities. Their literacy skills were dramatically low for the graduate level texts ... Read More
My Graduation Anniversary
May 12, 2012 was a momentous day in my life. It was the day before Mother’s day – celebrating the woman who had been my mother for 21 years of my life, it was my cousin’s 22nd birthday, it was... Read More
The Spirituality of Learning
Christian Scientists think of angels as bright ideas. Angels are moments of clarity and expanded consciousness, moments of fresh vision and creativity, broadened perspective, and infusions of loving i... Read More
Learning from the Non-Religious
I’m working on my thesis right now, which (allegedly) is a foray into theistic-atheistic dialogue. With the prodigious rise of atheism in this country over the past ten years as well as Europe’s s... Read More
Malala Yousufsai: A Voice of Faith for Youth, Women, and Humanity
Malala Yousufsai is a 14 year-old Pakistani girl who has raised her voice, loud and clear, for the right of women’s access to education. Her defiant activism openly challenged the narrow minds of th... Read More
Transformation and Nature-Religious Leadership
To be in a state of formation as an earthy person, a nature-religious person, is to seek a dynamic balance and to reconnect with a sense of the whole. Pausing for context: I am a twenty-three year-old... Read More
In Defense of an Undergraduate Education
Bill Bonner's diatribe against undergraduate education at UVA in the name of Thomas Jefferson and Rabbi HIllel demonstrates the same lazy habits of thinking and writing that I try to drill out of my f... Read More- 2 of 4
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