I was excited to have the opportunity recently to sit down for an interview with Father Nabil Haddad, a priest in the Melkite Catholic Church and founder and executive director of the Jordanian Interf...Read More
Conversations in the cafeteria are where much of the real theological work gets done at my seminary, where students hash out their thoughts on what was discussed in the class just ended or the reading...Read More
To walk through the streets of Amman—not many sidewalks to speak of here—or to sit in the minibus crammed with commuters can be disorienting. Now imagine those commonplace activities with ashes on...Read More
Listening to National Public Radio while you’re driving can be hazardous. Once again I almost drove off the road. The reporter was talking about a fourteen year old girl in Pakistan, hunted do...Read More
Today is the first full day in Israel. Jet lag woke me up at 5:45am and I grew restless waiting out the dawn in my twin bed, so I pulled on running shoes and trotted out into the indigo chill. The Sea...Read More
Article first published as A Study in Possibility on Blogcritics. It’s a holiday season crowded with crises. An entire continent slouches towards financial free fall, austerity emerges as a new ...Read More
Article first published as Education Under Fire on Blogcritics. Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to education…Technical and professio...Read More
This Article was first published as A War Against Knowledge on Blogcritics. Writing in The Huffington Post, Nobel Laureates Desmond Tutu and Jose Ramos-Horta note: Freedom of education and freedom of ...Read More
Awareness of insecurity and surrender to it can soften us to let Eternity in, can humble us enough to receive that which is beyond our false sense of control. This is what The Days of Awe, and the Jew...Read More
Article first published as How Does It Feel to Be A Question? on Blogcritics. I wrote recently that young Baha’is in Iran are denied the experience of graduating from college taken for granted b...Read More