Tag: Faith
Teaching for Tolerance
I have been an educator for quite some time. My work usually focuses on youth education, specifically with high school aged students. Through the work that I do, I’ve had the great fortune to tr... Read More
Finding a New Freedom in Academia
One of the central ideas of my family while I was growing up was the idea that we should never make fun of anything Christian or something that reflects Christianity. As ancient Michael W. Smith and S... Read More
The 2015 Parliament of The World’s Religions: The Tower of Babel in Reverse
The story of the Tower of Babel has always confused me. In it, humans are punished for working collaboratively together. But what kind of god causes confusion and separation, rather than illumination ... Read More
My Hidden Inheritance by Heidi Neumark
Adapted from Heidi’s book Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory and Faith, published by Abingdon Press and available on Amazon. I’ve recently been on my own “Who Do You Think You Are?â€... Read More
The Mutual Benefit of Working to Understand Others
My parents did the best they could to explain other faiths as I grew up. In my small Texas town, the scope of religion was narrow. There were the Catholics down the street who cared too much about Mar... Read More
On the Anniversary of Internment: Reflections and Truths
Seventy years ago, the United States government rounded up approximately 110,000 American citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry and forcibly relocated them to concentration camps along the Pacif... Read More
Opting Out of Interfaith Dialogue as Resistance for the Right to Exist
When it comes to interfaith dialogue and cooperation, it seems that not all faiths are created equal. My community includes a Umatilla/Nez Perce/Sauk & Fox indigenous storyteller and an Ifa pries... Read More
One of These Jews Is Not Like the Others: A Progressive Jew at an Orthodox Yom Kippur
It was raining at dusk. I decided not to ride my bike to the progressive Yom Kippur service on the Boston University campus. If I rode my bike, I would get too thirsty coming home and I wouldn’t ke... Read More