Role Models for Religious Minorities
The Mormons provide an example to any minority American religious group how to withstand suffering and how best to cultivate the challenges and threats of the past into future benefits and advantages.
Religious Conflict Archives
May 2, 2007 8:32 AM
Comments (35)May 17, 2007 2:11 PM
For Muslims, a Distant Figure
Rev. Jerry Falwell, who was born on August 11, 1933, passed away on May 15 2007. He led services at Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He changed affiliations from the more traditional Baptist Bible Fellowship International to the mainly conservative Southern Baptist Convention. He ended his self-identification with fundamentalism in favor of evangelicalism.
He will enter the history books as a religious and political force that sought to affect the direction of American religious and political history. Through his religious and social maneuvers as well as his political rhetoric, he helped create in American life a new way of getting traditional Christians, who heretofore were to a certain degree allergic to political matters, more receptive to the callings of his caravan. In doing so he thought and believed American life and thought would reverse the secularizing tendencies. Caught in the web of the Cold War and the culture war in his own country, he tried to exercise political influence among the politicians and spiritual magnetisms among the rank and file Christians of American society.
September 17, 2007 2:20 PM
Politics of the Belly, Head and Soul
The Middle East Problem that plagues us today is rooted in history, but the intellectual and political forces that keep it going are territorial/demotic nationalism on the one hand and religion on the other. Contrary to the more widely distributed lie the Middle East people have learned to live and fight as all human beings have done since the days of Cain and Abel if you accept the Abrahamic narrative about human origins and the unfolding of history. People from a non-Abrahamic faith may look at the origins of human conflict differently. But regardless of their points of view, the fact remains that on the Middle East question many points can be made and such answers could serve as analytical tools guiding us as we unravel the critical nature of the problem and the intricacies that accompany the battle of wills in this theater of history.
