Tag: identity
Between Native Americans and Pilgrims
For a few years my wife, children, and I would hear about the jokes, laughter, and family news on the following day when we went to get our share of the leftover oxtails and pie. Happily, we haven't l... Read More
The Way Out is Through
It’s a weekend morning in late November and I’m sitting in a cozy living room with other graduate students, sipping away at my hazelnut coffee and picking at a cold cinnamon bun. All of us are fur... Read More
I Am Not the Same Christian Today That I Was Yesterday
Recently, I had a discussion on Hegelian metaphysics with a group of 6th graders. I was surprised, as were they, to be describing our conversation in this way, but it was a happy surprise. I have th... Read More
Finding God In the Slums of Mumbai
There is a beautiful quote by Fredrick Buechner, an American writer and theologian that I would like to share. “Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these ... Read More
President Obama, Minority Religions, and American Politics
I recently attended a Diwali celebration in Connecticut. The event secured the major essentials of a second generation, Indian-American function: a late start [working to our advantage], a troupe of... Read More
Rattling the (Rib)Cage
A quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald that I’ve been obsessed with lately: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ... Read More
The Church of Mall
I grew up in one of the biggest mall towns in America; a commercial capital, another kind of religious heartland, where the faithful make regular pilgrimages from points far and near. The mall and t... Read More- 15 of 15
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