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Religious Divides and Obama's Promise
Obama's promise not to demogogue religion could well win support from the faithful.
Time for Third Vatican Council
The Pope should convene the Third Vatican Council so that the hierarchy can solemnly return the gift of infallibility, and beg instead for the gift of accuracy, and maybe also for the gifts of transparency, honesty, and integrity?
Pope Benedict, Muslims and Mutual Respect
There is no question that Pope Benedict has a great respect for religious faith of Muslims. In fact, he wishes European Catholics were as devout as Muslims.
Pope Benedict's Double Yes
When Pope Benedict prayed in the direction of Mecca, his action was a YES to Christian generosity toward the other religions, and when he baptized that Italian convert from Islam, his action said YES to Christian orthodoxy.
Careful, Catholics and Muslims! We Quake!
How Catholics and Muslims choose to relate will have consequences in a world threatened by aggressions, war, and terrorism and in a world where many recognize the need for reconciliation across the boundaries of faiths.
Benedict's Words Should Spark Dialogue
No one in the Islamic world should bear ill will towards Pope Benedict, especially in regard to the conversion of the Italian Muslim, Magdi Cristiano Allam.
Islam as a Political Football
What worries me is that the very flap over Obama’s former pastor miseducates the public as to both the place of preaching in congregational leadership and the relationship between pastor and parishioner.
Candidates Victims of 'Gotcha'
Denouncing, renouncing, and distancing have become such common activities that they lose their effect.
King: A Man Between Two Eras
One of the most impressive, profound, and deft aspects of King's approach was his employment of the scriptures of America's two major religions to further reconciliation and justice.
McCain's Hate Problem
John McCain should immediately renounce Rod Parsley not only for his astounding hate mongering against Islam, but also for his extreme views on a range of issues including his denunciation of separation of church and state.
Violence Against Innocents Should Be Renounced
There's nothing particularly shocking about calling Islam a false religion. If I were a devout Muslim, I would believe that a Christian who believed in the substitionary atoning death of Christ on the cross and the resurrection, as I do, believed in a false religion.
King, Weeping Word-Master and Master Stage-Manager
Jeremiah Wright is accused of “Jeremiads” in the denouncing spirit of some of Jeremiah’s speeches in the Bible book of that name. King was capable of such but his preferred mode was from the other Bible book from the Prophet Jeremiah, namely, Lamentations.
King Was Killed Speaking Truth to Power
I have heard so many stupid speeches about Dr. King that blather on about how he “gave his life for freedom.” He didn’t give his life; it was taken. He was shot by an assassin because he had dared to speak the truth to power about race, about poverty and about war.
Honor King's Legacy by Learning His Lessons
He is the last public figure that I can remember who preached his message straight from the Bible, including the prophetic works of Amos and others.
A Prophet Who Changed My Life
His courageous words that day -- earnest, unafraid, challenging America’s moral failings without judgment or alienation -- changed my life.
Questions, Answers Still Blowing in the Wind
Forty years on, I'm still left asking the question -- with a great sense of sadness because I love America and admire it hugely and am awed and saddened at some of the things some American policies are leading to.
Parsley's Opinion No Threat to Islam
Numerous Islamic leaders advocate killing Jews and Christians. They state their intention to wipe out those faiths. They claim they have a mandate from Allah to do this. And we're worried when one American preacher says Islam must be wiped out?
Parsley's View Dangerous, Divisive
Pastor Parsley unfortunately demonstrates a level of ignorance that is both dangerous and divisive in understanding the faithful and historic connection between the three great Abrahamic, monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Time to Renounce the Renouncing
We should collectively denounce and renounce denouncing and renouncing.
Question to Friends: Gender or Race?
None of us in America can isolate ourselves from persons of the opposite sex but many in America isolate from persons of a different race. When we are isolated it is easier to perpetuate and further entrench our stereotypes and prejudices—or just not think about it at all which probably has the same outcome.
