Wholly Saturday & The Gaps of Faith, or: Living In/Between the Death and Doubts of Faith
They (the Christians) call today “Holy Saturday.” In fact, I’m on my way to be with them on this (Holy) Saturday. I’ve not been in a Saturday Church Service in years, and I’m perfectly happy being a sorted and doubting insider on the outside of a dominant religious sector called Christianity. I have many Christian [...]
Stepping into the Black Hole. Or: What Happens when Everything Changes?
This is the last week of 2010. In fact, it is the last day of the calendar year. Its typically a fairly reflective day for some. Yet for others, it is the day/night when you enjoy yourself in good company. Most everyone toasts at 12midnight. I’m not so concerned about the toast at 12midnight, but [...]
Advent, Anticipation, Agnostic. Or, What if you just don’t know?!
Recently, Adam Hollowell published a post here entitled: A Response to Ricky Gervais’ “Why I’m an Atheist”. (You can read it here, and I encourage you to do so!) It’s a brilliant post, thoughtful and well done. What I am primarily interested in is knowledge (and the production of knowledge), not so much belief. And [...]
The Unchurch Church
It’s been a long time since I’ve stepped inside a Southern Baptist Church. In fact, its been a long time since I’ve been inside any church, that institutional space where “God comes close.” Leaving Texas for graduate school meant that I was also leaving the place and space that had formed me from a very [...]
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Self-identified as a Christian Agnostic and QueerMestizo (of Mexican & Anglo heritage), Robyn is a Ph.D Student at the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, Denver, CO focussing on Social Ethics with an primary interest in ethics in the US Borderlands. Robyn uses queer theories, Critical Chican@ Studies, and queer epistemologies to consider Ethics.
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Contributing Scholars
Rose AslanRose Aslan is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Religious Studies, where she specializes in Islamic Studies. She received her MA in Arab and Islamic Civilizations from the American University in Cairo and her BA in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia.
Simran Jeet SinghSimran Jeet Singh is a doctoral student in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His research focuses on South Asian Religions, particularly the Sikh tradition and the life of its founder, Guru Nanak.
Ben SchewelBen Schewel, 24, is a Bahá'í and doctoral student in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, studying process philosophy, focusing in particular on questions of history, science, and religion. Ben is very involved in the Bahá’í community’s projects of social and economic development (http://www.ruhi.org/).