Recently, I went to see the film Heretic. I was curious about what it would portray about religious thinking, and I wasn鈥檛 disappointed. I won鈥檛 spoil the plot of the movie here, but I will discuss...
The idea of transcendence often brings to mind something other-worldly, or beyond our normal sensory range. It is a concept that has developed in many spiritual traditions. Dictionaries remind us...
Our society is sometimes fixated on demarcating the boundaries of identity. Anyone with a dual or multiple identity can testify to this, including those who are mixed-race, or who do not conform to...
This past Wednesday, MORSL started training a cohort 91社区 and Concordia students in the ethics and practice of interfaith dialogue. As Carlene and I chatted about the upcoming program, I asked...
The developing field of Interreligious/Interfaith Studies asserts something radical: that the phenomenon of religion isn鈥檛 something that can be meaningfully understood in the singular; that the...
Ten years ago (in 2006), Sikh communities around the world celebrated the inauguration of the Cycle of Creation. The three-hundred-year long cycle will be a time for Sikhs to reflect upon and...
In Jewish traditions, religion and artistic creativity are complimentary forms of spiritual enrichment. They both serve a similar purpose, which is to attach the self to G_d as manifested in human...
The day I was invited to write this article, I entered a washroom in the MacDonald-Harrington building. On the door of my stall was scrawled, 鈥渋ncrease the peace.鈥� I could not agree more, but the...
Transcendence. Experiencing the divine. Tasting that sweet essence of God. For the Sikh, God has no form. God has no shape, age, race, or gender. God was never born and will never cease to be. God...
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