My Interfaith Marriage
I had never planned on falling in love with a Jewish girl. I actually didn’t really restrict myself to any particular religious tradition when considering whom to date.
Making Room for People With Disabilities
Here in Illinois, Governor Quinn has been pushing hard to close state institutions for people with developmental disabilities, along with some prisons and state mental hospitals. There are a handful of these complexes scattered around small towns all over the state. Like prisons, these institutions are a major source of jobs and revenue for otherwise [...]
The M Word: Reclaiming Mission in the Age of Dialogue
For a long time I would cringe at the sound of the word “mission.” To me it represented the worst of the Christian tradition. I associated it with conquistadors and pushy missionaries, trying to “save” the heathens in the jungle, or islands, or wherever the godless masses resided. I had experiences with some evangelical and [...]
Justice for 16 Afghans and Staff Sgt. Robert Bales
For the last decade, America has been a country at war and there has been a lot of talk about supporting the troops as they serve our country. This rhetoric is hard to counter because troops are human beings who are asked to do our dirty work while we sit at home and watch the [...]
A Search for Meaning in The Walking Dead
Since Mary Shelly penned Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, the world of story telling has used monsters to hold a mirror up to the human condition and force questions that, under normal circumstances, seem better left unanswered. As the characters of The Walking Dead watch their loved ones turn from human beings into vicious animals, they come face-to-face with their own mortality and the complex questions that circle around what it means to be human all while trying to maintain a sense of order.
Patrick Brown
Patrick is the Digital Media Coordinator at Liturgy Training Publications and is working on a master's degree at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, IL.
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Contributing Scholars
Bilal HassamBilal Hassam is a trainee Doctor at the University of Nottingham concurrently studying a Masters in Inter-Religious Relations at De Montfort University, Leicester. He spent a year as a Faiths Act Fellow for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Interfaith Youth Core (Chicago) serving as an Inter-Religious Ambassador for the UN Millennium Development Goals; mobilising faith communities to work together in the fight against global poverty. He continues to be involved in a plethora of charitable and community organisations and initiatives across the UK and Europe and can be followed at twitter.com/bilalhassam
Kari AanestadKari (24) is in her third year of a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN. Her passion for interfaith dialogue has emerged while traveling to over 20 countries in the past five years, and she currently lives in Oxford, England with her husband Brian.
Rebecca LeviReligious Studies grad student. Amateur cartoonist and cook, even more amateur violinist and science nerd. All-around kvetch.