Navigate essays by title on the menu to your left, or explore them by theme. 

Difficulty

• Teaching While Muslimah: Difficulties in Sounding Islam in the Classroom
• Explaining Why Jewish History Matters: Drawing Big Lessons from a Small People

Practice

• • Openly Practicing
  • Webs of Knowing: Birth and Religion
  • The Journey Toward Wholeness: Personal Growth, The Angulimala Sutra, and Therapeutic Interventions for Men

Failure

• Teaching Mysticism: An Exercise in Productive Failure
• Let the Past Fail Me

Scripture

• A Cat in the Basket and Other Scholarly Stories