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Parashat Emor: Embodied Leadership and Its Discontents

Posted on April 30, 2013April 30, 2013 by Lauren Tuchman

In Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21-24), read this past week in synagogues around the world, we are introduced to the relatives for whom Kohanim (priests) are permitted to mourn, as well as a list of vario... Read More

Pope Francis: How to Make New Artifacts from Old Power

Posted on April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 by Nathan Elmore

“We have many experts on the terrain of conflict, but not many leaders. Good Christian leadership radiates a very different presence in a broken world.” I came across these words by Emmanuel Katon... Read More

Taking Time: Health and Ministry

Posted on March 28, 2013March 28, 2013 by Christina Yost

It is about that time in the academic calendar at my seminary where we are halfway through the semester and the influx of homework that always seem to accumulate around this time of the year. For many... Read More

Millenial Interfaith Action

Posted on March 18, 2013March 20, 2013 by Joshua Stanton

What does it mean to “mobilize” a movement for social justice in the Internet Age? The word “mobilization” has strong associations for the Boomer Generation, when organizing hu... Read More

How Do You #Keep the Sabbath?

Posted on November 14, 2012November 13, 2012 by Alasdair Ekpenyong

–“The Pharisees said, This man is not from #God, because He does not keep the #Sabbath” -#John 9:16 It was a Sunday morning in April when a man named Tagg uploaded a picture of his... Read More

Transformation and Nature-Religious Leadership

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Bridget Liddell

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

Introducing the New RRD Program at State of Formation

Posted on September 9, 2012September 9, 2012 by Nicolas Cable

Dear State of Formation, I am very pleased to announce that we as a national and international community are continuing to grow and unfold, as we enter the third year of State of Formation! This year ... Read More

JIRD co-Founders Highlighted by FSU’s Character Clearninghouse

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Journal of Inter-Religious Studies

This past issue of Character Clearinghouse featured highlight interviews with JIRD co-Founders, Joshua Stanton and Stephanie Varnon-Hughes. Said Stanton: “I see myself attempting to realize one ... Read More

“Alhamdulillah, I am a Muslim,” Sings the Baptist: The Power of Music for Interfaith Dialogue

Posted on May 20, 2012May 20, 2012 by Kathryn Ray

The night that Navy SEALS stormed Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, another man living not five miles away awoke wondering why the military was conducting drills in the middle of the night. ... Read More

The Execution of Troy Anthony Davis: Finding Wholeness in Times of Complete Despair

Posted on September 25, 2011September 27, 2011 by Nicolas Cable

Disgust. Shock. Outrage. Our country is in mourning. Our nation is truly lost. We are in a whirlwind of emotional upheaval, a roller-coaster of spiritual destruction. The lead up to the execution of T... Read More