Harding University and The State of the Gay
Nestled in the heart of Arkansas west of the mighty Mississippi, but east of the Ozarks lies a quaint Southern town with a big college atmosphere. It’s quiet and hot (the humid type!) during the summers, but is lively and thriving with youth during the fall and spring when classes are in session at Harding [...]
Why is Interfaith Dialogue Important?
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Interfaith Movement, perhaps not. Either way, it should be important to you. Already in cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other large cities in the U.S., interfaith dialogue is occurring with such frequencies in universities, seminaries, and houses of worship that with quite certainty [...]
Going Home For Christmas (or The “I am From” Post)
The past several years have been full of change- c’est la vie, no? After returning to the States from Mexico, my wife and I stayed in the San Francisco area before moving to Boston in order to embark on my journey as a seminarian. The 2010 year was marked by not only the start of this journey [...]
A Hermeneutic of Gracious Pondering in a Season of Anticipation
Shortly before leaving Boston for the holidays I had an opportunity to attend a lecture by philosopher Richard Kearney at Boston College on his more recent publication, Anatheism: Returning to God After God. For the sake of brevity I will not attempt to summarize his work that tries to push us past the theism/atheism divide, but rather [...]
Christians in the Sukkah
Have you ever heard the expression, “You’re in my personal space?” As Americans, we love our space. During the frontier days, barb wire delineated my space from your space. Today, elongated “privacy” bush hedges and white picket fences take their place. We drive spacious SUV’s and have luxuriously wide hi-way lanes. We live in storied [...]
Marvin Lance Wiser
Originally from Tennessee, once a sojourner in Latin America and then California, now a CIRCLE fellow and MDiv student at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, Massachusetts, with concentrations in Hebrew Bible, the Ancient Near East, and Interfaith Studies.
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Contributing Scholars
Gavrielle BlankGavrielle Blank is a Ph.D. student in Hebrew Bible at Claremont Graduate University, focusing on Judaism’s interaction with non-Jewish religious traditions, specifically in order to understand the development of Gnostic elements within Jewish mysticism. In her non-academic life, she is an involved mother, a devoted partner, an aspiring artist, an avid music fan, and a lover of all things sci/fi and fantasy.
Michael VanZandt CollinsCurrently, an A.M. candidate at Harvard's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations where I study Islamic theology and philosophy, I had worked several years in education. Prior to that, I studied theology at Boston College with a concentration in social ethics.
Aidan McCormackAidan is a candidate for Unitarian Universalist Ministry and holds an M.Div. from Meadville Lombard Theological School. He is a chaplain, youth and community minister engaged in embodied theologies of queerness and liberation.