Here is my interview with Odyssey Networks on why, as a Jew, I find the Peter King hearings so disturbing. Do you find them disturbing? If so, why? On the bright side, as noted in Religious Freedom U...Read More
I can say with complete honesty that I am not mean. In fact, I haven’t a mean bone in my body. So, why then, do I sometimes do mean things? Why do I sometimes surround myself with negative thoughts ...Read More
I spent a lot of time at the Gyuto Monks’ mandala at the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia. The mandala is the traditional Tibetan Buddhist form of sandpainting, pra...Read More
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights, may have said it best: Ever since the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, hatred and discrimination against Muslim...Read More
As I sit here contemplating Representative Peter King’s (R-NY) upcoming “Muslim radicalization” hearings, trying to discern if my stomach ache is the result of the cookies I’m...Read More
We first generation Hindu Chaplains must therefore find a way to translate our traditions for a broad audience without apologetics or sacrificing internal diversity in return. The enduring question: ...Read More
With the transitional voice of my adolescence, the following lyrics vibrated outward from deep in my gut: I wonder if the light from the lighthouse would shine… The rest of the robe-clad singers...Read More
I was an undergraduate when I started hearing my classmates speak in reverent tones about Buddhism. Suddenly everyone was reading Hesse’s Siddhartha and setting their watch timers for twenty minutes...Read More
The recent events in Egypt produced many stirring images, among them those of Muslims joining hands so that Coptic Christians could hold Christmas mass unmolested in the wake of a suicide bombing outs...Read More
By Peter Ochs I do not know how to read or write about Scripture this week without turning again and again to the words of anguish penned by religious scholars among the broad population of Libyans cu...Read More