How a Pacifist Says Thank You on Veterans Day
I hope this doesn’t make me un-American, but I don’t celebrate Veterans Day; I mourn it. I mourn the lives lost. I mourn the visible and invisible scars created by war. I mourn that we haven’t found a...
View ArticleInterfaith Friendship Will Save the World
My Friend Sheima The first face of Islam I ever encountered belonged to a smiling 11-year-old girl who kindly gestured for me to sit next to her on the bus that would take us both to our first day of...
View ArticleAntonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg – The Hope of Friendship
In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia death last Saturday, I’d like to put politics aside for a moment and talk about friendship. That’s because if anything good came from his untimely...
View Article“Love Your Enemies”: Expanding Our Hearts Through Compassion
“Love your enemies.” I’m reflecting on this, the hardest of Jesus’s commandments, as I grieve my own nation’s policies of war, exclusion, vengeance and cruelty, policies envisioned through the lens of...
View ArticleWednesday Sermon: Announcing a New Freedom!
Pastors have a frequent question when they begin to discover mimetic theory. “That’s great. But how does it preach?” Reverend Tom Truby shows that mimetic theory is a powerful tool that enables pastors...
View ArticleIslam, Friendship, and Truth: Esmail Koushanpour
Suspicion of Islam is in the air throughout the United States. That suspicion was already there, but President Trump has added fuel to the fire with statements like, “I think Islam hates us. There’s...
View ArticleAppreciating Autism with Our Friend Julia on Sesame Street
In a world desperate for compassion, there is thankfully a place where friendship is valued as life’s greatest treasure, and special care is taken to make sure everyone is included and valued for her...
View ArticleHow Friendships Survive Disagreements: An Interview with Cesáreo Bandera
The RavenCast interview series challenge “us vs. them” thinking with new perspectives on the issues that divide us. You can watch or listen to the recordings at your convenience. In this episode of the...
View ArticleGratitude For My Muslim Friends On “Love A Muslim Day”
My Dearest Muslim Friends, Assalaamu Alaikum. Today around the world, people are turning a campaign of hate into a catalyst for healing and relationship-building as they observe “Love A Muslim Day.”...
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