Why Christians Should Stand With Israel
By John Hagee. Christians should stand with Israel because the God of the Bible is the God of Covenant. He is a promise-making and a promise-keeping God. Those who claim that God is not accountable to...
View ArticleA Jump Start for Sustained Peacebuilding
By Rev. Robert Chase For most Americans, Kazakhstan seems like a faraway place, indeed. But Americans can be quite myopic, blind to much of what goes on in the world beyond its borders. Actually, from...
View ArticleAn Exploration into the Evangelical Obsession with the Unborn
By Kristen Syme. On an April morning in 2008 during my brief stint at Bible college, a strange turn of events unfolded at one of the weekly chapel services. The college president stood sternly behind...
View ArticleTime for a New Political Expression
By Jyl Hall Smith. It is abundantly clear that Christians have divergent opinions on last week’s Supreme Court rulings regarding gay marriage and the Affordable Care Act. However, what becomes unclear...
View ArticleGlobal Poverty and Local Religiosity
By Rabbi Francis Nataf. Many questions still remain as the United Nations completes the review of its Millennium Development Goals (MDG) scheduled for later this year. But perhaps the biggest question...
View ArticleLiberal Protestants, Social Justice, and Antisemitism
By Mark E. Gammon. With the astounding pace of news over the last couple of weeks, it was easy to miss one small item. The United Church of Christ became the latest liberal Protestant denomination to...
View ArticleThe Moral Case Against Drone Strikes
By Rabbi Michael Lerner. There was a brief and rare moment this year in which people openly discussed the U.S. lethal drones program. For a few days, the Obama administration apologized for a strike,...
View ArticleOnce in a While You Get Shown the Light: The Grateful Dead and the Bible
By Andrew R. McGaan. To commemorate their fiftieth anniversary, surviving members of the Grateful Dead returned to Chicago’s Soldier Field for three shows over the Fourth of July weekend. Though the...
View ArticleOutlawing the Jain Fast-Unto-Death Is a Bioethical Issue
By Brianne Donaldson. On August 10, 2015, the Rajasthan High Court outlawed the ancient and rare Jain practice of fasting unto death on the basis that it is not “an essential religious practice”...
View ArticleThe Martyrs of La Florida Missions
By Jonathan Shea. In the run-up to Pope Francis’ visit to the United States, much ink has been spilled and many pixels exploded over the pending canonization of Bl. Junipero Serra, the founder of the...
View ArticleDangers of Legitimizing Bigotry
By Richard Cizik. Last week, a Sikh American resident from the Chicago suburbs was brutally assaulted by a random stranger. The perpetrator told the man, “Terrorist, go back to your country, Bin...
View ArticleChicago Jains Celebrate Ancient Ritual of Repentance and Non-Harm
By Brianne Donaldson. In the dimly lit basement of the Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago last Thursday, 17 September, two hundred children, teenagers, and young professionals sit down upon the floor...
View ArticlePope Francis and the Jews
By Michael Deschamps. The Roman Catholic Church is an institution with nearly two thousand years of history. As far as religious institutions go, it is rather unparalleled; most religions have survived...
View ArticlePope Francis and the Realities of Climate Change
By Sharon Friedman. Dear Pope Francis, I know you don’t know about climate change. I know because I worked in the business (as climate advisor to a U.S. government executive, pretty much the equivalent...
View ArticleBehavioral and Social Scientists: Witch Doctors of the 21st Century?
By Thomas M. Doran. Someone’s got to say it. Many, if not most, behavioral and social scientists are wreaking havoc. But how dare we question them, because they know better than we do. Don’t they have...
View ArticleChicago Jains Celebrate Annual Fast for Self, Neighbor, and the World
By Brianne Donaldson. Editor’s Note: This reflection is Part 2 in a series exploring the Jain festival of Paryuṣana at the Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago. Read Part 1 here. Also, the names of...
View ArticleInfant Mortality Disparity in the Developing World
By Dr. David Vanderpool, M.D. As a surgeon practicing in the U.S., I rarely encountered the issue of infant mortality. While I occasionally saw babies die in the U.S., the overwhelming resources we...
View ArticleMormon Homophobia and the Unintended Theological Crisis
By Stuart Parker. On Thursday, November 5th, 2015, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), colloquially known as the Mormons, announced a new set of policies to reinforce the hard line...
View ArticleOrphan Awareness Month: Moving Beyond Awareness
By Jenny Eaton Dyer November is Orphan Awareness Month. It is a time to raise awareness and funding for the millions of children around the world displaced by HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty. According...
View ArticlePatheos in 2015: The Peccadilloes, Conflicts, and Calamities of a Year in Review
By Kathleen Mulhern. The year was barely a week old when the first of many tragedies struck. Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris were stormed and eleven journalists and magazine employees were slaughtered...
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