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Religion at Harvard

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

http://www.newsweek.com/id/233413
I thought this was an especially interesting article because it shed light on a number of intersections we are navigating:  What role do we as believers and/or students of religion allow faith to play in our lives — personally and publicly? Does participating in a fiercely vigorous academic environment  lead us to separate our beliefs [...]

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The many paths to felicity

Monday, March 1, 2010

I’m currently taking a class on the 13th century Andalusian Islamic poet-mystic-philosopher-theologian Ibn `Arabī, whose worldview is tremendously fascinating and worth studying in depth (if only we had lifetimes enough!). One of the assigned books for the class, William Chittick’s Imaginal Worlds: Ibn al-`Arabī and the Problem of Religious Diversity, closes with two passages from [...]

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Thoughts on Evangelism

Monday, February 8, 2010

From the time religion was created by man, there have constantly been quarrels and disputes between various religions primarily debating which religion is better. Sometimes the squabbles between religions are settled through violence and other times, there are methods through which one faith spreads. I’d like to talk briefly on a non-violent method — evangelism, [...]

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