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THE QUESTION
Religion's impact in 2009
What was the most important religion story of 2009?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on December 21, 2009 10:48 PM
FROM THE PANEL
The church was too silent in 2009
If The Church would speak up against the way humans mistreat each other, this world might be a better place.
Posted by Susan K. Smith, on December 31, 2009 1:59 PM
Faith still the story
There were many interesting and critical faith issues during 2009. Any number of them would be worth a few pages of pontification or a few words at least. Suffice to say that the No. 1 faith issue of 2009 is that faith is still an issue that's still going strong. For example:
Posted by Vashti Murphy McKenzie, on December 31, 2009 12:10 PM
Fort Hood and the limits of human rights
I hold Major Hasan responsible for his actions and for this fallout from those actions, but there is no satisfaction in that blame. The burden has shifted to all people of good will to struggle with the sacrifices we are willing to make to preserve the American experiment.
Posted by Jack Moline, on December 29, 2009 5:15 PM
People of faith continue to serve
The most important news story of 2009? Sin abounded in all its forms - personal and social, sexual and financial, racial and religious, private and public. But grace abounded all the more. That, thank God, is good news for everyone.
Posted by Brian D. McLaren, on December 28, 2009 4:05 PM
Religion's power to shape policy
Religious organizations and the government can cooperate to achieve shared domestic and foreign policy goals without impinging on America's fundamental belief that the state should not endorse any one religion.
Posted by Feisal Abdul Rauf, on December 28, 2009 4:05 PM
Year of Obama and Avatar
The same wise instinct in the American voters that brought us Obama is the reason that Avatar will likely become the highest-grossing movie of all time. Both help us live out the myth of difference that will in the end either kill us or save us
Posted by Katharine Henderson, on December 28, 2009 12:19 PM
Obama's inaugural address set new course
The president eloquently called out for the "old hatreds" to pass. Words more urgent and more relevant to the dialogue today scarcely have been heard before. Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land; Christians and Buddhists in Sri Lanka; Hindus and Muslims in India's Kashmir, conflicts and conflagrations abound. How can we get the hate to pass?
Posted by Aseem Shukla, on December 27, 2009 11:44 PM
The struggle for the soul of Islam
The story of the year is the great religious story of our time: the struggle of religions, particularly Islam, to choose an inclusive, tolerant attitude toward those outside the faith (and toward dissenters or those deemed heretics within). The alternative is an intolerance that will destroy us.
Posted by David Wolpe, on December 27, 2009 11:36 AM
Baptists and Muslims: different books, common word
If Muslims and Baptists are peacemakers together in the United States, then they will show the rest of the world a better way forward.
Posted by Robert Parham, on December 26, 2009 6:20 PM
Today's news still impacted by Good News of 2000 years ago
There will always be those experiences that take the headlines and global stage, as they should. But I never want to forget about the individuals whose personal religious experiences illustrate the importance and continuing effect of what happened 2000 years ago.
Posted by Phil Davis, on December 24, 2009 4:11 PM
Religions, not faith, lose ground in '09
The renewed ferment of contemporary American faith is the story of the 2009, and it's a story filled with emergent promise even if nobody can be sure where it's heading.
Posted by Brad Hirschfield, on December 22, 2009 3:53 PM
Good or evil? A decade defined by religious struggle
This is the decade in which Christianity, Judaism and Islam really began to deal with the cost of their continued alienation and strife. We may one day look back on this momentous decade and realize it was the moment in human history when the children of Abraham began to heal the wounds of their violent past.
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on December 22, 2009 11:49 AM
