Tag: privilege
Dear Internet Active Peeps – Please Stop Using #YallQaeda and #YeeHawd
You Are Doing Theonormative Harm For those unfamiliar with the situation underway in eastern Oregon, I recommend this piece, as I will be citing it later. And, before I begin, allow me to reflexive... Read More
Interfaith Abroad, Part 2: Privilege, Context, and Coming Home
Read Part I here. Travel gives you space to see new things, and learn to appreciate all the familiar things you take for granted. Travel grants the traveler a suspension of their own reality, a limina... Read More
First Fruits: A Theology of Privilege
Temple service once included the practice of bringing bikkurim to the temple—the first fruits that grow from the land of Israel, the land that the Holy One promised our ancestors. These bikkurim are... Read More
The Limits of Compassionate Action
Forget what I was going to write. Forget everything, but the boy on the beach, the boots of the Turkish police standing over his body, arms lifting him up. Isn’t this why we have faith? Sometime... Read More
Privilege, Peace, and What South African Violence Has to Say to the World
Recently, a colleague of mine related the story of how she posed this interesting question to her college students: “Can peace exist when poverty remains?” As the facilitator of a project the stud... Read More
Being Thankful Without Affirming Privilege
“Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all your workers. Look, you fast only to quarrel ... Read More
Doing Interfaith Better: A Reflection on the Harvard “Black Mass” and Its Aftermath
Interfaith work means a great deal to me, as it does to many folks. Engaging in interfaith work, to me, means being inspired by my religious tradition to work with others of different belief/nonbelief... Read More
Courage: It Will Cost You Something
Higher Education is a world where students have enormous power. Often they do not realize the power that they have, but really, if something changes on a university campus, it almost certainly began a... Read More