Pilgrimage: Key Terms and Typologies
Pilgrimage: Key Terms and Typologies Pilgrimage is not only about traveling to sacred temples or churches because it is a concept that has evolved in the twenty-first century to mean…
Manufactured Movements: The Politics of Crafted Authenticity
Manufactured Movements: The Politics of Crafted Authenticity Leveraging Vernacular Language and Everyday Imagery to Shape Perceptions of Popular Support Some organizations intentionally adopt the speech, symbols, and style of ordinary…
Comparing Conversion, Discipleship, and Pilgrimage in the Abrahamic Faiths
Comparing Conversion, Discipleship, and Pilgrimage in the Abrahamic Faiths A scholarly overview of transformative and communal practices in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism Disclaimer: I am an Orthodox Jewish scholar and…
Phrases of Virtue, Dilemma, and Judgment: A Moral Lexicon
Phrases of Virtue, Dilemma, and Judgment: A Moral Lexicon From virtue to vice, phrases that shape our moral world. Since 2021, I have been compiling a list of phrases that…
Discovering Strengths: An Appreciative Inquiry into Women’s Pilgrimage Leadership
Discovering Strengths: An Appreciative Inquiry into Women’s Pilgrimage Leadership Combining comparative religious studies, gender studies, and the twenty-first century historiographical turn toward the sacred matters for leadership studies, and ultimately,…
Soft Skills, Big Impact: How Women Shape Faith Through Pilgrimage
Soft Skills, Big Impact: How Women Shape Faith Through Pilgrimage When my husband asked me what my dissertation was about, I found myself in a familiar position: explaining my leadership…
Time, Power, and the People
Roman Calendars Without Privileging Western Chronologies Studying ancient societies is difficult, and it helps to begin with the most basic point. Ordinary people rarely appear in the record. This problem…
Building the Jerusalem International YMCA: Planning, Architecture, and 1933 Dedication
Questions & Approach: A Moment of Convergence and Conflict On April 18, 1933, a remarkable ceremony took place in Jerusalem. American Protestant missionaries, British Mandate administrators, Jewish residents and Zionist…
Worldview & Intentionality
BS”D Brian and Judy Wallace are writing to address serious concerns that arose within the Orthodox Jewish community regarding language used on their blog website. Brian and Judy Wallace state…
About Us: Brian Wallace
Brian Wallace, Coadvisor to Yehudit Institute on Israel Heritage, Aliyah & Diaspora Affairs, and Combating Antisemitism. As a public speaker, marketer, and community organizer, it is my mission to adjoin…