White “Militiamen” Mistake “Domination” for “Dominion”
By Shantha Ready Alonso. Embed from Getty Images Burns-Paiute tribal council member Jarvis Kennedy asks protest…The Burns Paiute tribe has asked armed protesters to leave and stop desecrating the land....
View ArticleMyanmar as a Country of the Year and a Year of the Change
By David Moe. On New Year’s Eve, Burmese pastors normally read Isaiah 43:18-19—“Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing.” Emphasizing verse 19 as...
View ArticleHow Do We Stop the World’s Most Deadly Terrorist Group?
By Kimberly Smith. “Evidence suggests that this optimism owes more to government hype than reality.” This statement could easily be from any mainstream media source accurately covering U.S. politics...
View ArticleHow Much Does Race Matter? A Conversation About the Obama Presidency
By the Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson and the Rev. Dr. James Forbes. The Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson, president of Auburn Theological Seminary, and the venerable Rev. Dr. James Forbes, the first...
View ArticleAn Alum’s Personal Reflection on the Wheaton/Hawkins Imbroglio
By John Scanzoni. Christianity Today editor Mark Galli observed that the dispute between Wheaton College and Professor Larycia Hawkins should be resolved through “careful parsing.” He’d hoped that...
View Article“Covenant and Controversy”: Examining the Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism
By Joshua Sharf. Over the last 50 years, the success of Israel, America’s movement toward a more open society, and a desire for a closer relationship between Christians and Jews, have led American...
View ArticleWhy It’s Possible to Reject the Klan and Still Support Racism
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove If Donald Trump is telling the truth, he only recently learned that David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is an avowed...
View ArticleFaith-Based Food Traditions and Religious Identities
By Roberta Rosenthal Kwall. A Catholic chicken farmer in Kansas is making a revolutionary step forward in kosher eating, and not just because of what he brings to the dinner table. The Good Shepherd...
View ArticleA Pastor, a Rabbi, and an Imam
Stop me if you’ve heard this one – a priest, a rabbi and an Imam walk into a diner… and have a fun, light-hearted, and sometimes irreverent conversation about the big spiritual questions at the heart...
View ArticleNational Geographic Channel Debuts a Very Familiar “Story of God”
By Brian K. Pennington. God sells. As we rediscover every spring and winter, when grocery store check-out aisles, lined with the special issues of major news magazines, announce “new” discoveries about...
View ArticleMorgan Freeman’s Apocalypse: Lifting the Veil
By Brian Pennington. Last night, Morgan Freeman returned for the second installment of The Story of God, the National Geographic Channel’s stab at the television’s Quest for Meaning genre of...
View ArticleTrump, Nietzsche, and the Jewish Tradition
By Rabbi Francis Nataf. An American acquaintance recently told me that there is only one question every Israeli was asking him on his last visit—what’s with America and Trump? Like him or not, Donald...
View ArticleMorgan Connects to God, But Is There More?
By Brian Pennington. I know he didn’t mean to, but last night, Morgan Freeman tripped over one of my major pet peeves. Not once, but a dozen times. All professors have them—pet peeves about things...
View ArticleWhy I Got Arrested at the U.S. Capitol
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II. I was arrested today in Washington, DC, for insisting that the Federal government defend the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and protect Americans’ voting...
View ArticleThe Palmarian Church: New Rome or Fanatical Sect?
By Maria Hall. On a hilltop on the plains of Andalucía in Southern Spain, the huge gothic basilica of Palmar de Troya stands forever alone – a symbol of yet another sect which had distanced itself...
View ArticleHas Science Made God Irrelevant?
By Thomas M. Doran. I once read a science fiction story about a galaxy-roving human race that had run its ancient God to ground in a garden on an abandoned planet Earth. Rather than supplanting God...
View Article60th Anniversary of the Red Sea Parting
By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz and Susan Barnett. This year marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most iconic scenes in film history. In the 1956 Academy Award-winning film, The Ten Commandments,...
View ArticleThe Panama Papers and the Ritual of Confession
By Devin Singh. The Panama Papers caught some of the most powerful people on the globe in the act of self-dealing. Now the public wants the guilty to come clean, step into the light, and confess...
View ArticleDaniel Berrigan and Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold: Missing Voices for Human Worth
By Shalom Goldman. Embed from Getty Images April saw the passing of two very courageous American religious figures, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan and Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold. Berrigan, a Catholic priest and...
View ArticleAdult Clergy Abuse Is Overlooked and Misunderstood: Here’s Why
By Erin Crosby. Last week, the archbishop of Oklahoma City removed a priest from his duties after learning the priest had been investigated for sexual battery in San Diego five years ago. In this case,...
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