Tag: suffering
Love and Buddhism: The Parallel and Paradox by Jai Mirchandani
In common Hindi parlance, there are three words for love: ishq, pyar, and mohabbhat. Perhaps less important is the difference in each one of these terms than is the notion that there are three distinc... Read More
The Problem of Evil: Two Perspectives on Violence and Suffering in the Holocaust
We are pleased to be sharing, over the coming weeks, a series of four reflection pieces on the State of Formation visit to the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum this spring. Each one is a collab... Read More
You use the words you know
One of the unexpected things I have told friends about in my learning to speak Arabic over the past five years is the fact that I am much more talkative in Arabic than I am in English. In Arabic, my... Read More
Blessed are the Compassionate: The value of co-suffering in Mahayana Buddhism and Liberation Theology.
No island or castle can hide us from the reality of suffering, including sickness and death. That was true for Gautama Buddha over 2,500 years ago and it is true today. When we pay attention, we reali... Read More
After Auschwitz, What?
After Auschwitz, no theology: From the chimneys of the Vatican, white smoke rises — a sign the cardinals have chosen themselves a Pope. From the crematoria of Auschwitz, black smoke rises —... Read More
Are We Living In Hell? The Sandy Hook School Massacre and the Presence of God
If this is, as various Christians claim, a world in which the reign of the divine is both now and not yet, and the presence and purpose of God is somehow “realized” here and now, then ought we no... Read More
Encountering the Painful Past in the Present: A “Cloudy Water” Spirituality of Remembering the US-Dakota War of 1862
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Dakota-U.S. war which resulted in the execution of 38 Dakota men in Mankato (MN) on December 26,1862. It remains the largest mass hanging in U.S. history. ... Read More
My Heart Is In Tumult: Reflections on Lamentations in the Age of Global Warming
Lamentations--the text traditionally read by Jews on Tisha b'Av-- is not the first book that comes to mind when one is asked what the Tanakh has to say about the environment. But this text has some si... Read More