As a Greek scholar, I undertook a new translation of the New Testament to give a chastely modern, literary version of a major world text.
Articles
High Holiday Workbook
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Repentance is good for the soul, and for our activism. Use this workbook—whether you’re Jewish or not—to reflect on this past year and how you can deepen your life in the next one.
2010
Ever Dying, Never Dead – That’s Life!
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On Yom Kippur we strive to be angels, but we are also reminded of our essential difference from them.
2010
Speaking Our Pain: Anguish, Wonder, and Comfort in the Psalms
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The psalms, that body of biblical literature so beautiful and passionate, so full of longing, are often rejected by those committed to progressive politics. Here, though, I would like to encourage those of us interested in changing the world and transforming ourselves to turn to them again and take another look.
2010
Ha’Rav Kook: Master of the Lights
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A world of chaos stands before us, all the time that we have not yet reached the “tikkun elyon”—the highest level of healing, repairing, transforming—by uniting all life forces and all their diverse tendencies. As long as each one exalts himself, claiming, I am sovereign, I and no other—there cannot be peace in our midst (Notebook 8:429).
2010
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stern College: Gender Transition and Jewish Ethics
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I was sure that coming out as trans would end my employment by Yeshiva University, but after months when I was forbidden to set foot on campus, the unthinkable happened.
2010
It’s Time to Heal a Mega-Church Psychosis
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There is a psychosis that permeates many churches with regard to the presence and involvement of same-gender-loving (SGL) people, who have great love for God and for their church communities.
2010
Coming Home to Who We Are: Buddhist Spiritual Practice and Transformation
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As a young Asian American boy living in a mainstream Philadelphia suburb, I experienced many events of discrimination and racism that I did not know how to handle in my little life
2010
Same-Sex Weddings, Hindu Traditions, and Modern India
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Same-sex desire and even sexual activity have been represented and discussed in Indian literature for two millennia, often in a nonjudgmental and even celebratory manner, but a new virulent form of modern homophobia developed in India during the colonial period.
2010
Islam and Homosexuality
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In 2002 I began a long and lonely journey, daring to visit some of the darkest corners of the taboo that permeates the consciousness of that unlikely character: the gay or lesbian Muslim.
2010
Christians Seeing Red: An Evangelical Perspective
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To many in my faith, I’m a walking contradiction. I’m a Southern-bred evangelical Christian pastor and a “gay ally” (as straight advocates for the gay community are so awkwardly called).
2010
Self Transformation, Social Transformation
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Traditional Buddhism is a spiritual path for individuals, not a platform for social change — yet is it always clear where one ends and the other begins?
2010
The Future of God — and Secularism
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The future of God depends on the future of secularism. Most people will hear in that sentiment a prediction about the growth of secularism: If secularism grows, belief in God will commensurately shrink. If secularism stagnates, the world will continue to believe in God in 2100.
2010
A Universe Struggling to Become Aware?
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Without the compassion that arises when we realize our nonduality — empathy not only with other humans but with the planet — it becomes increasingly likely that civilization as we know it will not survive the next few centuries.
2008
God without God
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The atheists have all the best arguments. They find the religious world utterly indefensible, both morally and intellectually. Thankfully the God the atheist denies is not the God that people of true faith affirm.