Freedom Isn’t Free
Do we have free will? The question is more than just an exercise in navel gazing. We inhabit a world full of coercive force. Are we free to step outside of the cycle of hedonism and domination? If we are, then why is atrocity such an integral part of the fabric of our reality? In [...]
Baby, We Were Born to Fail
After dropping out of school when failing to complete a senior art thesis in my first year at Antioch College, I needed some direction in my life. Seeking the opposite of my previously unstructured life, I enrolled at a Zen monastery in the Catskills for a few months. On the long and winding bus ride [...]
Greg DuBow
Greg DuBow grew up in Atlanta, where he attended the Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation until he left for college. Greg went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio where he got a philosophy degree, focusing on existential phenomenology. He is in process for a Master of Divinity at Meadville Lombard Theological School and is finishing his last year as a Meadville student at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee as their first ever intern minister. He has worked as a graphic designer, wolf rancher, and a hospital chaplain. He enjoys gardening, riding and working on bicycles, and has just started studying Kung Fu
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Contributing Scholars
EnverEnver Rahmanov was born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and studied in Kiev, Ukraine before moving to the United States to work at the United Nations in New York. Currently, he is a student in Interreligious Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, California) and the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and a graduate assistant at the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages. Enver believes that the wisdom of peace, compassion and right actions is truly universal and has no borders but only different languages and interpretations. He is inspired by the Dalai Lama’s ethics beyond religion and his call for education of the heart by bringing the indispensability of inner values of love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness into education. Enver promotes interfaith dialogue by building personal heart to heart connections across religious borders and through his facilitation of Beyond Words: An Interfaith Ritual for Peace.
Bryan ParysBryan Parys, M.F.A., is working on a memoir of faith and mortality called, "Wake, Sleeper." His work revolves around the idea that art is an attempt to recover what is lost. http://wakesleeper.wordpress.com/
Sarah J. Blake LaRoseSarah J. Blake LaRose is an ordained minister with the Church of God (Anderson, IN) whose special areas of interest are biblical languages, ministry with seekers, and equipping the church to include people with special needs. Sarah is the author of two chapters in Discipleship that Transforms: An Introduction to Christian Education from a Wesleyan/Holiness Perspective, published in 2011 by Warner Press. She presented a paper with Lauren Tuchman entitled "Using Technology to Meet the Needs of Biblical Language Scholars Who Are Blind" at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Francisco in 2011.