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Archive: September 2008
What Judgment Teaches Us
Divine judgment, the central metaphor of Rosh Hashanah, has much to teach us about human frailty, freedom, and assuming responsibility.
By Jonathan D. Sarna | September 29, 2008; 7:57 PM ET | Comments (29)
Roe v. Wade Destroys Democracy, Dignity
Whether the assault comes from the Supreme Court or the White House, the destructive effects of Roe on our democracy and our human dignity must end.
By Dorinda C. Bordlee | September 29, 2008; 12:31 PM ET | Comments (28)
Political Progressives, Welcome Progressive Religious Voices
Progressive religion is a large, authentic, enduring strain in America that has produced the most clarion calls for justice in our history, from abolition to civil rights and the peace movement.
By Robert P. Jones | September 29, 2008; 7:43 AM ET | Comments (25)
What Sacred Story Do You Turn To?
What ancient character, or sacred story helped you solve a problem or gave you courage to grapple with something you couldn't face alone? Did it work? Why?
By Laura Blumenfeld | September 28, 2008; 3:08 PM ET | Comments (1)
We Need Hope, Help from Religious Leaders
What should faith leaders say and do in a time of economic crisis?
By Robert Parham | September 26, 2008; 3:35 PM ET | Comments (1)
Secular Values Voters and the Presidential Debates
It's time to ask the candidates if they intend to honor our secular constitutional tradition.
By Lori Lipman Brown | September 25, 2008; 2:17 PM ET | Comments (8)
Pulpit Initiative About Freedom, not Politics
No government agency should decide what a pastor can or cannot say from his pulpit, even if it's about candidates and elections.
By Erik Stanley | September 25, 2008; 12:26 PM ET | Comments (250)
Don't Lend Despots the Veneer of Peace
Discussion with Ahmadinejad will burnish the Iranian leader's legitimacy and help cleanse his reputation as a purveyor of hate.
By Felice D. Gaer and Michael Cromartie | September 24, 2008; 3:41 AM ET | Comments (101)
Celebrating Ramadan Jihadi Style
These cowards who call themselves Jihadis run and hide from soldiers seeking to fight them and instead target helpless and unarmed civilians.
By Muqtedar Khan | September 22, 2008; 3:39 PM ET | Comments (63)
Observing a Faith in Action
I have high hopes the connection between the classroom and ministry that plugs into that faith in action will become clearer.
By Barnaby Feder | September 22, 2008; 12:27 PM ET | Comments (1)
The Little Secret about Kashmir
There is a little-known secret of South Asia. You ought to know this one if you want to understand the escalating religious conflict in Kashmir, pitting two new nuclear-armed nations - secular India and Islamic Pakistan - against each other....
By Moorthy Muthuswamy | September 19, 2008; 5:39 PM ET | Comments (19)
Tragic Tale of Twin Cities
The city I love, for five days, emerged clearly as a police state. Now things look normal again.
By Meg A. Riley | September 19, 2008; 2:00 PM ET | Comments (6)
Jesus Calls Women to Serve and Lead
Women are commanded and commissioned to serve Jesus Christ in whatever capacity He calls them, within or without the organized church, in word or in deed.
By Anne Graham Lotz | September 17, 2008; 8:52 AM ET | Comments (126)
Believers Can Be Reasonable
To be sure, affirming the positive functions of faith says nothing about its truth claims. But among psychological scientists, whether believers or not, there is a growing discounting of the wholesale claim that all religion is toxic, dangerous, evil, violent.
By David G. Myers | September 16, 2008; 8:51 AM ET | Comments (57)
Got Acedia? Who Cares?
Aldous Huxley called acedia the primary affliction of his age, and its baleful influence still sours our society today.
By Kathleen Norris | September 16, 2008; 1:25 AM ET | Comments (27)
No Debate, but Candidates Respond to Science Questions
The science policies both candidates outlined in response to our questions address the most important yet most ignored issues of our times.
By Matthew Chapman | September 15, 2008; 11:37 PM ET | Comments (2)
Fear of God and Darwin
If we are going to ask whether creationism or intelligent design could be true, in the name of academic freedom, then are we also going to ask whether unidentified flying objects or intelligent life on other planets could be true?
By Richard Lindsley Walton | September 15, 2008; 9:38 AM ET | Comments (31)
My Faith is Not the Whole Truth of God
I am a world citizen. I have crossed lines of language, religion, race, class nationality and culture to find my friends and make my family and I have learned that neither I nor my religious faith can contain the whole truth about God.
By Mpho A. Tutu | September 12, 2008; 4:06 PM ET | Comments (26)
A Future for Traditional Values within the Anglican Communion
The Episcopal Church still has remnants of its rapidly fading prestige, but its current leadership seems to have lost its way and it has caused a major rift in the Anglican Communion.
By Martyn Minns | September 12, 2008; 10:10 AM ET | Comments (19)
Anglicans Can Find Common Ground at the Cross
The rift in the global Anglican Communion can and must be repaired through civil dialogue. This dialogue is impossible when parties refuse to show up at the table as happened at Lambeth.
By David Abshire and Ian Markham | September 12, 2008; 9:23 AM ET | Comments (59)
Grandmothers To Pope: Drop Edict
The Grandmothers are certain that it is now time to open a sincere spiritual dialogue between the Catholic church and indigenous peoples to discuss the revocation of three antiquated and divisive papal bulls and edicts.
By Mona Polacca | September 11, 2008; 8:29 AM ET | Comments (38)
My Base Instincts and God's Love
Why did God save the life of a man who had trashed, lampooned, and marginalized Him? It certainly wasn't because I had written Basic Instinct and Showgirls.
By Joe Eszterhas | September 9, 2008; 8:50 AM ET | Comments (347)
Palin Puts Baptist Men on the Spot
The Republican Party's first woman caused Republican Party's first-line male clergy to revise their theology about women.
By Robert Parham | September 9, 2008; 3:22 AM ET | Comments (37)
Palin Should Address Disturbing Religious Connections
It's time for Sarah Palin to tell us more about her religious beliefs and connections and how they relate to her policy views.
By Robert S. McElvaine | September 9, 2008; 12:11 AM ET | Comments (38)
Kermit the Christ
Kermit-Christ's detractors should also remember that the traditional Catholic crucifix can often evoke dismay, even revulsion, with is its seemingly macabre imagery.
By Mathew N. Schmalz | September 4, 2008; 5:15 AM ET | Comments (8)
