January 31, 2013 at 6:44 pm
God is Not Great. The End of Faith. The Godless Constitution. The Portable Atheist. They are stacked up on my desk in my apartment, their abrasive titles piled one atop the other. Christopher Hitchens abounds. Yes, I am taking a class on atheism. And agnosticism, to be exact. In US history. With the amazing Stephen […]
January 24, 2013 at 7:55 pm
So, being a major religion dork, I did not, needless to say, spend my winter break reading this: Nope. Instead, I could be found reading this: It is a beautiful book called The Cathedral of the World on Unitarian Universalist theology, written by Forrest Church, an inspiring Unitarian Universalist minister and theologian who struggled through […]
December 6, 2012 at 12:24 am
This Friday evening, I will be breaking bread with the Jewish students on campus. In Judaism, the Jewish Sabbath (or Shabbat) begins at sundown on Friday evening and lasts until Saturday night. In observation of this, at BU Hillel there are services and a Shabbat dinner every Friday night. This Friday’s Shabbat is a special […]
November 15, 2012 at 5:09 pm
I’m from South Carolina. In South Carolina, there is a lot of country music. And where there is a lot of country music, there is a lot of Carrie Underwood. Thus, when her song “Jesus, Take the Wheel” came out back when I was still in high school, this was inescapable: My parents love this […]
November 9, 2012 at 10:42 am
Last Thanksgiving, a swath of my extended family (plus myself) convened at my grandparents’ house in New Jersey. On the day of Thanksgiving, as the tempting smell of turkey filled the house and the little ones grew more and more frenzied from excitement over the ten different pies my grandmother had made (but which they […]
November 2, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Sorry. Couldn’t resist modeling this post’s title after Robby’s own enthusiastic one. But it’s true! The BU Interfaith Council is also starting a panel series. The theme? “Religion Mythbusters.” Yep. That’s right. That’s us. Well. Maybe we look a little different. And the myths we’re busting are of slightly different kinds. But we can dream. Our goal, […]
October 26, 2012 at 12:41 pm
This past Tuesday, the Boston University Interfaith Council (the group I run) had an interfaith discussion entitled: “Halloween, Ghosts, and the After(?)life.” Which is kind of a macabre/depressing/choose-your-negative-adjective-here topic, you’re thinking. But actually-it wasn’t. We had a range of religious traditions represented, from Jewish to Buddhist to Irish Catholic, and we talked about many things–funeral […]
October 20, 2012 at 3:55 pm
No, people. I’m not talking about passionate love movies and being swept off your feet, à la: Sorry to disappoint. (Though that is a good movie…) I’m talking more along the lines of being swept away by the business of life. Namely, having your spiritual practices swept away in the flood of jobs, homework, classes, […]
October 11, 2012 at 9:04 am
Jesus. A controversial figure, right? At least today. Perhaps always. He’s fit into all sorts of categories. Jesus as Lord. Jesus as Savior. Jesus as your boyfriend (which, as Courtney Ressig of Her.meneutics can tell you, is not a good thing). The Teacher, the Redeemer, the Prince of Peace. A lot of titles. This past […]
October 3, 2012 at 1:31 pm
My friends and I call it “the million dollar question.” It’s the one every adult (and a lot of your peers) ask you as you get closer to graduating college: “What are you going to do next?” Terrifying, right? There is a myriad of questions contained within that one query. What do you want to […]