Reflections from a Subway Platform: Sunando Sen and The Fight To End...
I can’t stop thinking about Sunando Sen. Two weeks before Mr. Sen was pushed into the elevated tracks at 40th-Lowery St, I stood on that platform, fresh from an evening with a good friend. I love the...
View ArticleTo The Ashes, To The Soil, I Gladly Return
This “lapsed Catholic”/retired Hindu monk/bhakti-yogi/radical seminarian gladly received ashes on his forehead at the culmination of our annual Ash Wednesday retreat at Union Theological Seminary....
View ArticleThe ‘Hindu’ Identity by Prashant Parikh
Hariḥ Ōm and Namaste (customary greeting of Hindus). This being my first post on ‘State of Formation’, I would like to express my great pleasure in being amid this crowd of intellectuals and...
View ArticleProject Conversion: Rebuilding the Shattered Mirror
A few months ago when the request came on the State of Formation email group for reviewers for a book called ‘Project Conversion’, my literary greed took the better of me as I rushed to get hold of yet...
View ArticleEssential Wisdom for our Existential Crisis: Mahabharata, The Eternal Quest
Hopelessness is often the first reaction when we consider our mounting existential crisis. We feel it in our gut, in our mind, in our soul, whenever we consider the plight of our ecology, our economy,...
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The Sacred Art and Duty of Cow Protection
How we treat our mother cow will define the very course and future of our civilization. Wait…the cow? For most Western people, when we think of the cow we think of her as dinner, as the skin behind a...
View ArticleLetting Go of Unnecessary Necessities
In a time and a place and a planet in which the way we live, the way we see ourselves, the way we see each other, and the way we understand what we mean by culture, community, and civilization is under...
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A Landscape of Lived Religion in Nepal
This is the first in a multi-part series discussing sacred landscapes and religion in the Himalaya I recently returned from a month of fieldwork and research in Humla, the northwestern district of...
View ArticleMusings on a Winter Night: Religious Tolerance and Inclusivism in Our Scriptures
Recently, I got some much-needed time off from seminary for the holiday break. Not only was I able to catch up on my rest and recharge my batteries during the downtime, but I was finally able to, at...
View ArticleFive ways Hindu-Americans can become advocates in Trump’s America.
We have a role to play. The time is now. The rhetoric during the election season has been difficult on many people. In particular, faith-based communities who have had their voices heard under the...
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If God is bigger than us, then so is “God’s image”
One source of controversy in modern religion concerns the amount of deference given to the discoveries of science. (Note to self: cross “write world’s most profound understatement in one sentence” off...
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If God is bigger than us, then so is “God’s image”
One source of controversy in modern religion concerns the amount of deference given to the discoveries of science. (Note to self: cross “write world’s most profound understatement in one sentence” off...
View ArticleReflections from a Subway Platform: Sunando Sen and The Fight To End...
I can’t stop thinking about Sunando Sen. Two weeks before Mr. Sen was pushed into the elevated tracks at 40th-Lowery St, I stood on that platform, fresh from an evening with a good friend. I love the...
View ArticleTo The Ashes, To The Soil, I Gladly Return
This “lapsed Catholic”/retired Hindu monk/bhakti-yogi/radical seminarian gladly received ashes on his forehead at the culmination of our annual Ash Wednesday retreat at Union Theological Seminary....
View ArticleThe ‘Hindu’ Identity by Prashant Parikh
Hariḥ Ōm and Namaste (customary greeting of Hindus). This being my first post on ‘State of Formation’, I would like to express my great pleasure in being amid this crowd of intellectuals and...
View ArticleProject Conversion: Rebuilding the Shattered Mirror
A few months ago when the request came on the State of Formation email group for reviewers for a book called ‘Project Conversion’, my literary greed took the better of me as I rushed to get hold of yet...
View ArticleEssential Wisdom for our Existential Crisis: Mahabharata, The Eternal Quest
Hopelessness is often the first reaction when we consider our mounting existential crisis. We feel it in our gut, in our mind, in our soul, whenever we consider the plight of our ecology, our economy,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Sacred Art and Duty of Cow Protection
How we treat our mother cow will define the very course and future of our civilization. Wait…the cow? For most Western people, when we think of the cow we think of her as dinner, as the skin behind a...
View ArticleLetting Go of Unnecessary Necessities
In a time and a place and a planet in which the way we live, the way we see ourselves, the way we see each other, and the way we understand what we mean by culture, community, and civilization is under...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Landscape of Lived Religion in Nepal
This is the first in a multi-part series discussing sacred landscapes and religion in the Himalaya I recently returned from a month of fieldwork and research in Humla, the northwestern district of...
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