Archive: February 10, 2008 - February 16, 2008
Time Alone with God
The simple act of being intentional with my time alone with God transformed my spiritual life and almost every other relationship I had, which I guess is to say that I was changed.
By Hope Hodge | February 16, 2008; 5:10 PM ET | Comments (5)
On Teaching Buddhism
In the religious studies department of the University of Iowa, the graduate students are required to take a series of four foundational courses regardless of their area of specialization. During my first semester at UIowa I took Teaching Religious Studies;...
By Dustin Eaton | February 16, 2008; 11:53 AM ET | Comments (1)
Active Living
As a young child, I used to tell my father that during the week I was American, and on the weekends I was Armenian – school was a time for my American friends, and the weekends for my Armenian ones.
By Ani Nalbandian | February 15, 2008; 10:54 PM ET | Comments (16)
From Virginia Tech, with Love, Sorrow, Despair
Here we are again. Here I am again. Nothing but the darkness of my room at Virginia Tech and the terrible, burning knowledge of life taken with such incredible violence.
By David Grant | February 15, 2008; 8:25 AM ET | Comments (50)
On Being and Not Being a Buddhist
I did not want any part of a religion that used God as a sleep aid or as a butler to find lost keys, and there was no reason to believe that God as I currently envisioned him was anything other than a figment of my imagination.
By Dustin Eaton | February 15, 2008; 6:38 AM ET | Comments (27)
Left Behind: The Catholic Edition
I do hope that holy young people will choose to serve the church through holy orders and consecrated religious life. But if they continue to choose to remain laymen, there must be a vigorous, wholesome, Catholic response to my generation’s spiritual hunger.
By Elizabeth Tenety | February 12, 2008; 1:50 AM ET | Comments (3)











