Anyone Can Edit: What Faith Communities Can Learn From Wikipedia
On January 15, 2001, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched the free, web-based encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. Wikipedia is collaborative and open-source, meaning that anyone can add and edit material on the site. Since this launch, there have been 20 million articles written by volunteers around the world. These volunteers are not paid. Nonetheless there [...]
What is Interfaith Sacred Space?
When studying for the 2006 U.S.A. Memory Championship, journalist and mnemonics enthusiast Joshua Foer utilized a bizarrely simple technique taught to him by his mentor, Ed Cooke, in order to win it all. Foer explains in his book Moonwalking with Einstein that all human beings have an incredible memory for space and that memory champions [...]
Ringing the Bell: Will Occupy Wall St. Reverberate?
I was scanning through pictures of the Occupy Wall Street protest this week, trying to put this new movement in perspective, when two pictures caught my eye. The first was a Japanese man wearing a mask over his mouth with 99% on the front – a reference to the unofficial slogan of the Occupy movement [...]
Matt Helms
Matt Helms is graduate of McCormick Theological Seminary and is currently working as a pastoral resident at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He is an active blogger and a fan of all things writing.
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Contributing Scholars
Jared Hillary RuarkHello! This is where I try to join together my person life, in-class learning, and current events into some type of coherence. Watch as I try to lend some theological order to a disordered world.
John KlawiterJohn is currently serving as Pastoral Intern at Como Park Lutheran Church, member of the ELCA, in St. Paul, MN. He will graduate from Luther Seminary in May, 2012 with a M. Div.
Tiffany PuettTiffany Puett is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on religious diversity and multiculturalism in North America, the ongoing construction of ‘religion’ in a liberal democratic society and the politics embedded in these processes. She’s especially interested in the intersections of religion with education, citizenship, and religious freedom.