Guest post: Finding Judaism in Unexpected Places by Pamela Jay Gottfried
(Pamela Jay Gottfried is a rabbi, parent, teacher and student of religion. She is the founding mother and editor of the interfaith blog She Answers Abraham and the author of Found in Translation: Common Words of Uncommon Wisdom.) I am a Jew by choice. Not because I converted to Judaism—I was born to a Jewish [...]
An Opinion Piece: “Stop Injustice at the Department of Education” By Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot
On January 31, 2012, just a few days ago, my family’s financial plans were unexpectedly upended by the Federal Department of Education. For nearly the last two years, we had planned to enroll in the Department’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program as a means of coping with the over $150,000 in education debt we [...]
Guest Post: If You Live Your Life in Fear, It’s Not Much of a Life Worth Living
Originally posted on Groundswell Movement, February 8, 2012, By Jessica Jenkins Macky Alston’s new film Love Free or Die chronicles the life of Bishop Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop. Bishop Robinson’s 2003 consecration in New Hampshire brought to a head tensions in the U.S. Episcopal Church, and throughout the worldwide Anglican communion, [...]
Guest Post: “Pursuing Elijah” by David Fisher
What are we?! – MEN! What are men?! – RESPECTFUL!!!! Let’s hear it louder! What are we?!!! – MEN!!!! What are men?!!! – SENSITIVE!!!! WHAT ARE WE?! – MEN!!!!!! WHAT ARE MEN?!!!!??! – COMPASSIONATE!!!!!! I will always remember “Boy’s Night” at the Face to Face/Faith to Faith intensive, during summer 2010. That is a vivid, [...]
Guest Post Part Three: Dharma bypasses ‘history-centrism’
On occasion, State of Formation is pleased to offer its readers and contributors selections from guest bloggers. Over this week we will publish four part series containing excerpts from a recent book authored Rajiv Malhotra entitled Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism. More information about Rajiv Malhotra is located at the bottom of [...]
Guest Post Part Two: Dharma is Not the Same as Religion
On occasion, State of Formation is pleased to offer its readers and contributors selections from guest bloggers. Over the next week we will publish four part series containing excerpts from a recent book authored Rajiv Malhotra entitled Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism. More information about Rajiv Malhotra is located at the bottom [...]
Guest Post Part Four: HINDU GOOD NEWS™
On occasion, State of Formation is pleased to offer its readers and contributors selections from guest bloggers. Over the next week we will publish four part series containing excerpts from a recent book authored Rajiv Malhotra entitled Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism. More information about Rajiv Malhotra is located at the bottom [...]
Guest Post Part One: A Different Kind of Hindu-Christian Dialogue: Difference with Mutual Respect
On occasion, State of Formation is pleased to offer its readers and contributors selections from guest bloggers. Over the next week we will publish four part series containing excerpts from a recent book authored Rajiv Malhotra entitled Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism. More information about Rajiv Malhotra is located at the bottom [...]
The End of Spirituality: On the Trail to a Sacred Secularity
This is a guest post by Chris Highland a professor at Cherry Hill Seminary. We are all tired of the contemporary cliche, “Spiritual but not Religious.” We might be surprised to hear someone say “I’m Religious but not Spiritual” though that may simply be an example of a person who does not connect to the [...]
Guest blog post: Why God2 should not be called “God”
This article is a continuation of an article written as a guest submission by Matthew Lowe, a Jewish educator in Boston, MA, and an lay leader at the Moishe Kavod Social Justice House in Brookline, MA. In a recent post on State of Formation, I presented a new theological taxonomy, dividing up monotheistic models into [...]
Contributing Scholars
Zachary BailesBlogger, Community Organizer, and public speaker engaging the intersection of faith and public life. May 2012 M.Div. Graduate at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
Anna DeWeeseAnna DeWeese, 27, received her Master of Arts degree in Theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 2009.
She is the program associate for the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Contemplation & Education, and she teaches for the Interfaith Community in New York City.
Sarah BassinHaving been ordained as a rabbi from Hebrew Union College in 2011, Sarah Bassin now serves as the executive director of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change based out of Los Angeles.