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Archive: August 9, 2009 - August 15, 2009
Anti-Hindu Bias at U.S. Commission
Why did the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom put India on its watch list? It begins with bias.
By Aseem Shukla | August 14, 2009; 9:57 AM ET | Comments (41)
Romance Requires Showing Up and Staying Apart
It would be foolish to reject new social media tools to speak to those who are distant, but it would be equally foolish to abandon person-to-person ministry.
By John Mark Reynolds | August 13, 2009; 1:06 PM ET | Comments (4)
Moral Idiocracy: Media Coverage Of Clinton In Africa
The larger story is the media's universal preference for celebrity gossip and petty personal conflict over substantive issues.
By Susan Jacoby | August 13, 2009; 5:51 AM ET | Comments (22)
Tweeting God
As someone who has seen the practical and powerful effect of prayer countless times, I don't believe that a sincere petition from a humble heart to the Almighty ever goes to waste.
By Phil Davis | August 12, 2009; 2:10 PM ET | Comments (0)
God's Spam Filter
No, God does not tweet nor does God have time to listen to almost seven billion people insincerely pleading for mercy.
By Arun Gandhi | August 12, 2009; 11:36 AM ET | Comments (3)
Gutenberg Got the Same Question
The technology doesn't matter. From the oral recitation of memorized texts, to scrolls, to books, to Facebook and other social media and finally to Twitter, it's the spiritual connection that counts.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | August 12, 2009; 11:06 AM ET | Comments (2)
Woodstock Nation Turns 40
The lesson of American history since Woodstock is the struggle with the fall from innocence. You can't confront the politics of anger with naïve dreams of innocence. You'll lose.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | August 12, 2009; 10:52 AM ET | Comments (4)
God is Listening
God is everywhere, in everything and every creation that man myopically calls his own. Whether it be Facebook, Orkut, Twitter or SMS, God is listening.
By Aseem Shukla | August 11, 2009; 11:02 PM ET | Comments (2)
Prayer: Personal, Intimate, One-on-One
True prayer takes effort, focus, concentration. If we trivialize the experience, we risk trivializing the answers.
By Michael Otterson | August 11, 2009; 6:59 PM ET | Comments (22)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Faithful Service
It was Eunice Kennedy Shriver's belief in God and the Church which led her to devote her life to others.
By Sally Quinn | August 11, 2009; 2:42 PM ET | Comments (13)
Jesus Would Tweet, and Warn of the Temptation of Technology
Jesus spoke in tweets before tweets became cool, if by tweets one means short messages.
By Robert Parham | August 11, 2009; 2:42 PM ET | Comments (3)
Medium is Not the Message
The importance is not in the media, but in the sender of the message. When there is a prayer or a question that has very little meaning to the person who asks it, then the vehicle by which insignificant prayers move from place to place is also unimportant.
By Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz | August 11, 2009; 1:28 PM ET | Comments (2)
Tweeting Gods
A tweeting God? In cyberspace things aren't necessary what they appear to be
By Mathew N. Schmalz | August 11, 2009; 12:56 PM ET | Comments (4)
The Digital Divine
For those of us who believe that God does speak to us today through such vehicles as church teaching, the Bible, and conscience, there is nothing really offensive about the idea of getting short and snappy messages from the Divine.
By Richard Mouw | August 11, 2009; 12:43 PM ET | Comments (2)
In the Beginning was The Word, not MS Word
I suspect God chooses not to be on Facebook, but God does get in our face when we fail to care for our neighbor or help the poor.
By Bob Edgar | August 11, 2009; 11:44 AM ET | Comments (4)
God Incarnate, not Internet
I've yet to discover a way to consecrate or to communicate (in a sacramental sense) over electronic media. That is as it should be, in keeping with the doctrine of the incarnation.
By Randall Balmer | August 11, 2009; 11:38 AM ET | Comments (4)
Apostasy and Religious Pluralism
A significant minority of Muslims, like very conservative and fundamentalist Christians and Jews who strongly affirm their faith, are less pluralistic in their attitudes towards other faiths and their co-believers.
By John Esposito | August 11, 2009; 11:20 AM ET | Comments (2)
If God is God, Then God Tweets
The question is not really whether God Tweets, but are we capable of tweeting anything sacred, purposeful or meaningful.
By Brad Hirschfield | August 11, 2009; 9:42 AM ET | Comments (8)
Searching for God On the Internet
Theologians also say God in omniscient, therefore he of she would likely know all "tweets," all blog entries, and even all e-mails.
By Ramdas Lamb | August 11, 2009; 3:49 AM ET | Comments (10)
Let There Be Tweets?
The danger of technology is not that it trivializes faith. Religion is not only spontaneous and heartfelt; it is also complex, thoughtful, reasoned, meditative.
By David Wolpe | August 10, 2009; 10:03 PM ET | Comments (7)
Hands that Help or Lips that Pray
The issue for me isn't the form of prayer, but prayer itself.
By Herb Silverman | August 10, 2009; 6:14 PM ET | Comments (14)
Tweeter-in-Chief
I have no doubt that the latest message from God sounds like tweeting to believers.
By Susan Jacoby | August 10, 2009; 3:08 PM ET | Comments (35)
