Religious-Educator-in-Chief
If "we teach who we are," Obama's Cairo speech taught us that we are capable of appreciating difference and making peace.
“Not a Fan of the Undergarments”: A Mormon Mother Blogs
A Mormon mommy blogger ponders spiritual laziness, gay marriage (fine with her), projectile vomiting, the evils of daylight savings time, and the relationship between Mormon-mom perfection and antidepressants.
Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch
The new Patriarch is considered a modernist, but his support for freedom of religion is spotty, and Russia's fledgling gay rights movement will not find an ally in Kirill.
The door is not just open to Muslim Americans; we are not sitting in the living room; there is a room for us in the house now.
As the Obama team rounds up unlikely bedfellows for the inaugural ceremonies it seems to have forgotten something: we are not all Christian.
‘Jews Who Were Israelis’: Anti-Semitism and the Mumbai Chabad Center
Though Mumbai militants were instructed to kill “Jews who were Israelis,” few of the victims had any ties to Israel and at least one was an Ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist. Comprehending the conflicting notions of Jewishness is essential to understanding whether this was an act of anti-Semitism or not.
Perhaps the Holy Father’s questions highlight the most critical issue.
Is Religion a Game?
Playing Gods, a new board game making headlines, is more than just a playful riff on religion. If we want to understand religions, we have to understand their game-like qualities, and that religion might, at the heart of it all, be a game. Which does not make it trivial.
Religion in Tension on World AIDS Day
From “God Hates Fags” to Desmond Tutu’s calls for compassion, religion has been deeply intertwined with the struggle for AIDS justice. Fully two decades after activists first challenged church authority on HIV/AIDS religion's report card is mixed.
An interfaith coalition of clergy urge Obama to reject war, corporatism, ecological catastrophe and business as usual in favor of “a New Bottom Line”...
A rural town in Iowa is the home of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, a facility that–while already under scrutiny for its poor treatment of workers and animals–was recently the scene of the largest immigration workplace raid in history...
Given the strictures of Muslim dating, what are all the eligible Muslim women to do in the face of the dearth of eligible Muslim men? Sex? Online dating? Marry outside the faith?
Op-Ed: God is Green
Earth Day, 2008: An American Muslim reflects on the ethic of environmental protection in Islam.
A Pakistani girl and a Nun square off over religious expression.