Food & Faith, Diversity & Service: All in A Semester’s Work
Last week I attended the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies and presented with a colleague about some of our work teaching a first year learning community as part of our institution’s general...
View ArticleTalking Interfaith Studies
Note: Due to the winter storm, I wasn’t actually able to travel to this conference! I wanted to share about it anyway: The longer I teach religion, the more intentional I become about teaching...
View ArticleInterfaithing Round-Up
This weekend I’m travelling to Washington, D.C., to attend The President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, along with the preceding convening of the Vanguard Interfaith Campus...
View ArticleBooks, Vocation, & Education
It happens regularly … a student comes into my office, stops and looks around, says: “So many books!” I usually smile, and say, “of course … it’s my job.” That’s only partially true, of course, since...
View ArticleChristian Privilege & the Religion Professor
Today is Better Together Day! The designation comes from the Interfaith Youth Core, lifting up the day to encourage more people to have one conversation with a person of a different religious or...
View ArticleOpportunities for 21st Century Interfaithing
This week, I’m attending the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge fifth annual convening in Washington D.C. It is organized by the Department of Education and the White House...
View ArticleEngaging & Navigating #AARSBL15
Today I’m in Atlanta for the American Academy of Religion annual meeting. When I was a graduate student first attending the gathering of 10,000-ish scholars in religion and biblical studies, the...
View ArticleWe Need To Dance at Each Other’s Weddings
I had to send regrets to two invitations to local interfaith iftars in the past week. Yet the word regret can’t fully capture the loss I feel this year at not being able to accept my Muslim neighbor’s...
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