Saturday
We’re heading to Napa today to celebrate the earth and her fruits, and so I offer this from Wendell Berry, hero of the land and those who love words: MANIFESTO: THE MAD FARMER LIBERATION FRONT by...
View ArticleLittle Easters
You may have noticed I didn’t post anything yesterday (such vanity to believe that anyone is tracking this daily). The Sundays in Lent are supposed to be “little Easters” when we get a break from...
View ArticleThis is already really challenging and it’s only been a week
One of my favorites from Mary Oliver The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to...
View ArticlePeter King Epilogue
Though the birth of interfaith engagement as a movement dates to the first Parliament of World Religions in Chicago in 1893, since the 1960s and 70s and particularly since 9/11, there has been a...
View ArticleSo Long, Winter
As we say goodbye to winter this weekend, I offer this from Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson. Keep love alive. (Thanks, EJJ!) Winter Song
View ArticleWe Are the Stories We Tell
In 2010, September 11 fell on the festival of Eid-ul-fitr, the festival at the end of Ramadan, and many in the Muslim and interfaith community were concerned that the joyous celebration would be...
View ArticleOccupy UC Davis
On Thursday, November 17, I and a handful of other campus religious leaders met with Assistant Vice Chancellor Griselda Castro and discussed concerns around the campus’ response to students’ expression...
View ArticleWhy I walked Chancellor Katehi out of Surge II
At 5pm yesterday, as my family and I left Davis so that I could attend the American Academy of Religion annual meetings in San Francisco, I received a call from Assistant Vice Chancellor Griselda...
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Healing at UC Davis
It has been nearly six months since the pepper spraying of student protestors at UC Davis, almost half a trip around the sun since I was called the next day to mediate between Chancellor Katehi and...
View ArticleA response to the shooting in Connecticut
Kindergartners, God. They were kindergartners. Images of smiling small faces, with too-big backpacks and loose teeth filled my mind, my own gap toothed six-year-old among them. Such promise, such...
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