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Archive: February 2007
Jesus: Bones and Wounds
If this were the family tomb of Jesus, it would neither destroy my Christianity nor destroy my faith in the resurrection.
By John Dominic Crossan | February 28, 2007; 10:06 AM ET | Comments (136)
Goldberg: Judge Not Israel Alone
I tend to find the idea of Christians sitting in moral judgment of Jews somewhat chutzpah-like, given the fact that Israel only exists because Christianity showed itself chronically unwilling to accept Jews as equals.
By Jeffrey Goldberg | February 27, 2007; 11:01 AM ET | Comments (34)
Mistakes, Israel has made a few worth mentioning
Certain elements of the American Jewish community are much too quick to confuse genuine and often constructive criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, thereby silencing voices that Israel (and America) desperately needs to hear.
By Richard Cohen | February 26, 2007; 10:51 AM ET | Comments (108)
Look at "Israel issue" as a mirror
I see the hysteria surrounding the “Israel issue” in American life – and the shameful silence about what actually happens in the territories Israel occupies – as one more symptom of the provincial ignorance and isolation of the U.S. in world affairs.
By Tony Judt | February 25, 2007; 11:04 AM ET | Comments (31)
Who is an anti-Semite?
Anti-Semites aren’t just “critics” of Israel; they are people who hate Israel and the Jewish people and want to see harm come to them.
By Gary Rosen | February 23, 2007; 11:45 AM ET | Comments (339)
Eroticism and Celibacy in Hinduism
"Should one be celibate or should one celebrate sexuality?" asks a noted Hindu psychoanalyst.
By Sally Quinn | February 20, 2007; 3:03 PM ET | Comments (25)
Has Organized Religion Done More Harm or More Good?
Read the transcript of the first live online debate at On Faith
By Susan Jacoby & R. Albert Mohler | February 20, 2007; 12:49 PM ET | Comments (1030)
On Faith Panelists Debate Organized Religion
View the first On Faith live online debate today at noon. Noted author on secularism Susan Jacoby debates R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, about organized religion: Has it done more good or more harm?
By Susan Jacoby & R. Albert Mohler | February 20, 2007; 11:39 AM ET | Comments (0)
Faith In the Public Square
When you hear a president invoke God, always listen carefully to the context.
By Jon Meacham | February 18, 2007; 3:03 PM ET | Comments (383)
Love Is a Force That Pulls Hearts Together
In love, we are one, and there is something Divine in this.
By William S. Cohen & Janet Langhart Cohen | February 16, 2007; 6:46 PM ET | Comments (951)
Erotic Hindu Spirituality
The ascetic ideal is perennially in competition with the erotic one for possession of the Indian soul.
By Sudhir Kakar | February 16, 2007; 6:20 AM ET | Comments (356)
Saint Valentine's Message
In this century that began with terrorism and war, and in a world where love seems forgotten amidst so many forms of hatred, Saint Valentine offers an example of one who gave his life for love.
By Vincenzo Paglia, Bishop of Terni, Narni and Amelia | February 15, 2007; 10:47 AM ET | Comments (30)
Prayer Offers Humans Tranquillity
Without a loving relation with God through prayer, we remain in the darkness of loneliness and perpetual torment.
By Mohammad Khatami | February 12, 2007; 3:03 PM ET | Comments (143)
President Lincoln's Secret
After more than a year of seemingly fruitless bloodshed, Lincoln concluded that God was forcing him to turn the war in a moral direction that spoke directly to the crime of slavery.
By Allen C. Guelzo | February 10, 2007; 2:48 PM ET | Comments (145)
Congress Needs an Interfaith Caucus
In an era of global religious tensions, an Interfaith Caucus would say to the world that America is committed to dialogue, not division.
By David Gray, Eboo Patel, Paul Raushenbush, and Sid Schwarz | February 9, 2007; 9:49 AM ET | Comments (23)
An Evangelical View On The Environment
Just a few years ago, care for the natural world was not a personal priority for me. What changed? I changed.
By Richard Cizik | February 7, 2007; 10:42 AM ET | Comments (459)
Prayer Is An Inexhaustible Mystery
Man's search for meaning begins in prayer and returns, with life's last breath, to prayer.
By Carol and Philip Zaleski | February 7, 2007; 7:14 AM ET | Comments (342)
Prayer and Self-Delusion
The value of a person’s prayer lies not in how much he cried out, how much he swayed, nor even how strong his emotions were, but in what remains of his experience after the prayers are over.
By Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz | February 3, 2007; 2:34 PM ET | Comments (347)
Believing In Things Unseen Is Not Delusion
The secularist’s reflexive dismissal of the miraculous is as intellectually irresponsible as a believer’s blind acceptance. God gave us mind and heart, reason and faith. We must use all the gifts we have been given to the fullest.
By Jon Meacham | February 2, 2007; 1:42 PM ET | Comments (423)
In Cathedral or Laboratory, It's the Same God, National Prayer Breakfast Told
There are increasingly shrill voices who argue that the scientific and spiritual worldviews are incompatible. I am here to tell you that these different ways of finding the truth are not only compatible, but wondrously complementary.
By Francis S. Collins | February 1, 2007; 3:12 PM ET | Comments (756)
