2009-11-07T00:37:08Z Other views on religion in the news. tag:newsweek.washingtonpost.com,2009:/onfaith/guestvoices//626 Copyright (c) 2009, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive 2009-11-07T00:37:08Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/11/earths_salvation.html

Q: What you say about the protecting the environment would seem so obvious and yet you have run into opposition. Who is against this idea of saving the earth and why? Response of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Although it is true that it would seem the most basic and simple idea that human beings would protect their shared home, the planet earth; there is yet resistance, and sometimes deliberate opposition. We see this...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patriarch Bartholomew 2009-11-06T21:22:54Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/11/fort_hood_shooter_attacked_muslims_too.html

By Muqtedar Khan Director of Islamic Studies, University of Delaware The American Muslim community is experiencing shock, disbelief and apprehension as it watches the unfolding details of the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist and practicing Muslim, born in Virginia of Jordanian parents, turned against his fellow citizens and military colleagues and murdered 13 and wounded 30. What happened at Fort Hood follows a nightmare script that has...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Muqtedar Khan 2009-11-02T18:12:11Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-01:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/11/the_religion_of_thinness.html

By Michelle M. Lelwica professor, Concordia College A few weeks ago, Ralph Lauren made the news with an altered ad that featured a model with giraffe-like legs and hips so narrow that her head seemed oddly oversized. Though the image ran only in Japan, media critics in the west deplored it as yet another example of the extremes to which the fashion industry will go in digitally manipulating its spreads to capture the attention of...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Michelle M. Lelwica 2009-10-31T15:00:35Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-30:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/end_us-sponsored_torture_forever.html

By Rev. Richard L. Killmer National Religious Campaign Against Torture Just two days after taking the Oath of Office, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order halting torture. Americans from all walks of life, including members of the religious community and retired military leaders, celebrated this significant step toward closing a sad chapter in America's history. But the January Executive Order was only the first step. Despite President Obama's significant start, there is much more...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Richard L. Killmer 2009-10-30T15:01:10Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-30:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/the_stunning_simplicity_of_faith.html

By Mitch Albom columnist, author He was The Singing Rabbi. Not just on the pulpit. Everywhere. In his later years, if you asked Albert Lewis how he was doing, he'd warble: "the old gray rabbi ain't what he used to be aint what he used to be" I knew him as a boy, the way most of us know our men of faith - from afar. Back then, if I saw him coming, I ran....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Mitch Albom 2009-10-28T14:31:58Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-28:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/the_new_muslim_middle_class.html

By Vali Nasr Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy The Muslim world is going through a quiet and profound revolution. Islamic consciousness is on the rise, sweeping over every aspect of public and private life. But it is not the zeal of this turn against secularism that is noteworthy, but the diversity of opinions and new ways of thinking that it embodies. This rising fervor is led not by the usual authorities--clerics and Islamic...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Vali Nasr 2009-10-27T14:57:41Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-27:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/what_catholics_want_in_health_care_reform.html

By Jon O'Brien and Sara Morello Catholics for Choice The United States is embroiled in a debate over health care. Ideological divides over morality and money are front and center, and threatening to derail any real progress on what has become a major crisis. There is a curious divide in the national conversation we are having about what exactly health care is or what it should be. More often than not, it's about who or...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Jon O’Brien and Sara Morello 2009-10-28T14:31:12Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-26:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/the_secularist_case_against_atheism_30.html

By Austin Dacey author A new, milder "Atheism 3.0" is on the market, teaching a more forgiving attitude towards faith. Bruce Sheiman, author of An Atheist Defends Religion, maintains that humanity is better off with it than without it. Although a recent Religion News Service classifies me and my book The Secular Conscience among the 3.0s, I have to say that I'm not all that happy with the taxonomy. I'll not mention that this "truth-must-lie-somewhere-in-between"...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Austin Dacey 2009-10-21T20:43:50Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-21:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/a_call_for_civility_and_an_end_to_nazi_rhetoric.html

By Welton Gaddy, others A group of prominent faith leaders brought together by Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President of Interfaith Alliance, has released an open letter to other religious leaders, politicians, and pundits calling for civility in public debate and to specifically refrain from using inappropriate references to the Holocaust and Nazis. A copy of the letter along with its signers follows. An open letter to religious leaders, politicians, pundits and the public: In...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Welton Gaddy, others 2009-10-21T15:39:19Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-21:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/why_is_bill_donohue_angry_again.html

By John Gehring Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good Just in time for Halloween, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is once again spooked about all those "radical secularists" lurking ominously behind ever corner. In case you didn't notice, these godless heathens are "waging war" against American culture and plotting to "smash the last vestiges of Christianity in America." So argues the irrepressible cultural warrior in a recent On...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

John Gehring 2009-10-21T13:47:58Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-21:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/the_moral_mandate_for_affordable_health_care_for_all.html

By Fr. Joseph Schad SJ, Hospital chaplain, Portland, Maine When Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has represented my home state for 14 years, voted in favor of the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform bill last week, health care reform came one step closer to becoming a reality and pundits of all stripes debated whether or not the committee's accomplishment could be described as truly bipartisan. While this question is worthy of discussion, many others are...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Joseph Schad 2009-10-22T13:32:37Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-21:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/the_unavoidable_ethical_dilemmas_of_pandemic_flu.html

By Kirk O. Hanson executive director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Pandemics and disasters breed unavoidable -- but predictable -- ethical choices. Coping with the H1N1 epidemic demands that we address a set of difficult ethical dilemmas - where our self interest and the common good of the community collide - where our ethical and religious commitments ought to drive our choices. If the current pandemic gets worse through mutation of the virus, as it...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Kirk O. Hanson 2009-10-20T15:25:39Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-20:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/romes_new_home_for_anglicans.html

By Austen Ivereigh America magazine contributor Rome today has announced a legal means for disaffected Anglicans to become Roman Catholic while hanging on to their liturgies and rites. It is a major move by Pope Benedict XVI, the potential negative impact of which on relations between the two Churches was vigorously played down by the Archbishops of Westminster and Canterbury at a joint press conference this morning in London, where Dr Rowan Williams described relations...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Austen Ivereigh 2009-10-19T19:59:56Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-19:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/good_jobs_green_jobs.html

By Rabbi Steve Gutow, Rev. Larry Snyder, Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon and Dr. Sayyid Syeed While experts argue over the nature of this country's economic woes, leaders in America's faith communities see daily the consequences of the downturn, as far too many of our people continue to cry out for shelter, food, and meaningful work. Food banks are strained, foreclosures mount, and the competition over the few jobs that remain grows ever fiercer. Millions of...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Gutow, Snyder, Kinnamon & Syeed 2009-10-19T20:00:35Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-10-19:/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/10/secular_saboteurs.html

By Bill Donohue President, Catholic League There are many ways cultural nihilists are busy trying to sabotage America these days: multiculturalism is used as a club to beat down Western civilization in the classroom; sexual libertines seek to upend the cultural order by attacking religion; artists use their artistic freedoms to mock Christianity; Hollywood relentlessly insults people of faith; activist left-wing legal groups try to scrub society free of the public expression of religion; elements...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Bill Donohue