by Richard Chrisman | Jan 7, 2018 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed.
I felt I was watching an exercise in futility. In an auditorium that seats about 400, 40 students were gathered, maybe 50, and a handful of faculty and staff. An open meeting had been called to discuss racial tension on campus. An associate dean for diversity...
by Richard Chrisman | Dec 4, 2017 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed., For Religious Congregations
Forgetting the unforgettable–an American trait. So wrote James Baldwin in 1967 about Americans’ habit of forgetting what is unforgettable–racial history. What we cannot bear to look at, we do not look at. If we don’t see it, it didn’t...
by Richard Chrisman | Dec 2, 2017 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed.
Dialogue is the new watchword of our time. To promote understanding. To advance education. To defuse conflict. To co-exist. What is the chaplains’ role in fostering dialogue on campus? What can we as religious leaders on campus do to promote dialogue? Can...
by Richard Chrisman | Aug 26, 2017 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed., For Religious Congregations
Your life is a story trying to be told. You are trying to tell it. Every day you come home and tell the day’s story to a mate or a friend. On your way home, on the bus or subway, or stopping at a neighborhood bar, you will hear others telling their story, too....
by Richard Chrisman | Aug 14, 2017 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed., For Religious Congregations
On Sunday, August 13, 2017, churches welcomed to Sabbath services sorrowful congregations looking for any wailing wall upon which to grieve the Charlottesville cataclysm. Another moral implosion in America’s pock-marked landscape! While we wait for national...
by Richard Chrisman | Jan 25, 2017 | For Chaplains in Higher Ed.
Literacy in civics; literacy about history; literacy of belles-letres. All of these have won attention in public and higher education lately. Add to these a call now for religious literacy. Current events demands it, and educational leaders have found funding for...
