Inter-Religious Dialogue

In the previous blog I explored why the dispute between traditionalists and progressives regarding same-sex...

"Ever since his own day Tyndall’s translation has been blamed for being tendentious. If we...

I’ve recently been engaged in reading about a movement within United Methodism to promote Christian...

American Christians become so obsessed with the supposed attacks by secularists and humanists on their...

Inside the US the attack on intelligence by Ted Cruz’ new foreign policy advisors directly...

The best way to insure human rights in a modern society is to insure that...

The single most important question in interreligious dialogue today is not theological. Is anthropological. And...

The question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God is for all practical...

Who will be the watchman on the wall to warn when danger approaches the people...

Or at least irrelevance. I note that in major cities across the United States, certainly...

If Dallas is going to be the city it wants to be then Christian pastors...

A young man lies in a hospital bed after a sports accident. He is conscious,...

The blood hadn’t dried and the bodies were still warm when Job’s visitors arrived. A...

Offensive racial, ethnic, and religious slurs are means of asserting power and privilege, and thus...

Imagine for a minute that you live in a country where Christians are a small...

"Would the fundamentalists have shown up for a pluralistic conference that respects multiple viewpoints anyway”...

"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union,...

Now that I’ve seen people shouted down, I’m certainly not speaking up.  "There is one...

At the Council for Foreign Relations lunch there was a vigorous and useful discussion about...

The word sacred has two related dimensions. One dimension of something sacred is that it...

“By publicizing the views of ISIS as Islamic you are helping their cause.” That was...

One role of religion in human society is to continually affirm that the fears and...

If your religion teaches you that under some circumstances you have no moral responsibility for...

We need to get out of the weeds of blame in the Ahmed Mohamed case,...

Yesterday I learned from the Washington Post and New York Times that President Obama got...

There is an old and rather ugly joke about two people on a cruise. They...

A scarred face and broken teeth stared out at me from my Facebook feed. The...

The question we then face is how to understand the mission of Christ in a...

Christians belong to one of two different religions that just happen to share the same...

Love wins! I’ve seen that posted a dozen times on Facebook since the recent supreme...