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Archive: April 2008
The Black Church as Prophet, Patriot
Black church members sense that in their anguished cry for justice they are expressing the mandates of a just God.
By James A. Forbes Jr. | April 30, 2008; 8:15 AM ET | Comments (96)
What is Liberation Theology?
To we white folks, Jeremiah Wright sounds threatening. But we might ask ourselves if we deserve to be threatened.
By Tony Campolo | April 30, 2008; 12:16 AM ET | Comments (86)
Black Church Called to Lift Every Life
African American spirituality is rooted and grounded in the belief that God hears the prayers of the oppressed.
By Cheryl J. Sanders | April 29, 2008; 9:04 AM ET | Comments (9)
Iran is Not the Enemy
The “axis of evil” has no relevance for me when I think of Iran, a country I’ve found to have a human, loving, hospitable face throughout 40 years of encounters.
By Ellen Francis | April 28, 2008; 10:12 AM ET | Comments (115)
Black Church Always in Crisis Mode
The black church will emerge stronger and our prophetic witness will be even greater after Dr. Jeremiah Wright's media crucifixion.
By Frederick D. Haynes III | April 28, 2008; 8:27 AM ET | Comments (55)
Another Way of Living
What does faith in resurrection have to do with efforts to contain war, racism, global warming and terrorism? Everything.
By Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew | April 25, 2008; 8:46 AM ET | Comments (117)
Sharing Hardship and Prosperity
During times of scarcity, it is particularly difficult to hold fast to the ethic of sharing our prosperity. But it is also during these periods, when the vulnerable members of our society are at greatest risk, that it is most important to share what we have.
By Simon Greer | April 24, 2008; 12:50 PM ET | Comments (6)
The Greening of Passover (Eco-Leavening)
As today we seek to move beyond the plagues of climate crisis, to bring a new birth of freedom to our wounded earth, we can act in many spheres against the pharaohs that enslave us.
By Arthur Waskow | April 22, 2008; 1:44 PM ET | Comments (8)
Abortion, Gun Control and Other False Choices
In the party’s obsession with the notion of individual choice, the Democrats and their allies on the Christian left eerily echo conservatives in the Christian right and their stance on gun control laws.
By Elizabeth Evans | April 21, 2008; 4:13 PM ET | Comments (7)
What Now for Catholic Education?
When Pope Benedict XVI addressed Catholic educators at The Catholic University of America last Thursday, he did more than insist on orthodoxy in Catholic schools and colleges—he laid out a vision for Catholic education that spiritually transforms its students, the...
By Patrick J. Reilly | April 21, 2008; 11:06 AM ET | Comments (6)
Why the Pope Matters to Me
As we welcome the Pope, we welcome Jesus Christ, for that is who the Pope would want all attention and praise to go to anyways.
By Matt Maher | April 18, 2008; 1:14 PM ET | Comments (12)
What Benedict Hasn't Said About the Holocaust
Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to a synagogue in New York this week will evoke his visit to the oldest synagogue in Germany nearly three years ago. On that occasion, addressing leaders of Cologne’s Jewish community, Pope Benedict properly addressed the...
By James Carroll | April 17, 2008; 3:59 PM ET | Comments (190)
Jewish Community Eager to Pray with Pope
The visit of the leader of the Catholic Church to America will be of interest to many people in the Jewish communities across the U.S.A. While the Pope’s visit will focus on the United Nations and the Catholic communities in...
By Michael A. Signer | April 17, 2008; 2:59 PM ET | Comments (5)
Muslims Want to be Friends, Not Rivals
Rivalry seems to be hardwired into human nature. Whether we take the Darwinian view or the theological one, it doesn’t bode well for Peace on Earth, good will toward men. While making a case for a certain point of view...
By Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore | April 16, 2008; 2:41 PM ET | Comments (16)
Benedict's Fear of Feminism
Fear, not hope, has been a predominant note in Benedict's major writings on feminism and the changing role of women in the Church and in the world.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny | April 16, 2008; 8:30 AM ET | Comments (27)
My Response to Benedict
In his response, the Pontiff has utterly mis-stated the nature of the clerical pedophilia scandal.
By Christopher Hitchens | April 16, 2008; 7:53 AM ET | Comments (253)
Will Benedict Scold Catholic College Presidents?
A declining but still-dominant faction of Catholic college presidents know that Pope Benedict can hardly be pleased with many of their institutions, which often pose serious conflicts with Catholic teachings and morals.
By Patrick J. Reilly | April 15, 2008; 2:33 PM ET | Comments (10)
Impressed by Benedict's Convictions, not His Views
If Pope Benedict is right, we evangelicals are endangering our souls and the souls of our church members. Yet, I am convinced that he is not right -- not right on the papacy, not right on the sacraments, not right on the priesthood, not right on the Gospel, not right in understanding the church.
By R. Albert Mohler Jr. | April 15, 2008; 1:03 PM ET | Comments (126)
The Heart and Mind of Benedict
A constant theme of Benedict’s is that, when rightly understood, there is no conflict between religion and science, faith and reason, heart and mind.
By Richard John Neuhaus | April 11, 2008; 2:14 PM ET | Comments (59)
What I'd Ask the Pope
If Ratzinger is not asked at every stop he makes, and in level yet firm tones, why he and the Vatican continue to shelter Cardinal Law, our profession will have shamed and disgraced itself.
By Christopher Hitchens | April 11, 2008; 12:39 PM ET | Comments (271)
Benedict Not a Single-Issue Pope
On issues such as Iraq, terrorism, poverty, refugees, disarmament, the environment and Third World debt, Pope Benedict is usually to the left of Democrats.
By Thomas J. Reese | April 9, 2008; 8:48 AM ET | Comments (32)
King, Moses and Midrash
My deadened Jewish soul was reborn out of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. Now when I praise the God Who "gives life to the dead," I mean it.
By Arthur Waskow | April 4, 2008; 8:20 AM ET | Comments (21)
The Word of the Lord Was Upon Him
Martin Luther King’s preaching was always a mix of ethnic and universal, passion and learning; only the precise blend varied.
By Jonathan Rieder | April 4, 2008; 6:40 AM ET | Comments (4)
Statement on Jeremiah Wright
I wish Jeremiah Wright had made his point without saying “God damn America,” but not for a moment do I wish he had been less prophetic.
By John M. Buchanan | April 3, 2008; 8:32 AM ET | Comments (3)
Anti-Muslim Film Boorish and Boring
Geert Wilders' anti-Muslim film is dull and easily dismissed. A more creative approach might have forced Muslims to look within.
By Irshad Manji | April 2, 2008; 8:54 AM ET | Comments (237)
Free Speech and Muslims in Europe
For some, the Geert Wilders film represents a small victory in an ongoing war between Western liberty and the irrationality of Muslim sensitivities.
By Dalia Mogahed and John L. Esposito | April 2, 2008; 7:41 AM ET | Comments (25)
Democrats, Republicans and Abortion
An email conversation between Mark Stricherz and Amy Sullivan about the current politics of abortion: Mark: Amy, you write that plenty of Democratic voters are pro-life and that Americans are conflicted about abortion. I agree. I disagree about the national...
By Mark Stricherz and Amy Sullivan | April 1, 2008; 10:47 AM ET | Comments (15)
