Poland’s Battle Between Theocracy and Secular Democracy
By Beth Holmgren, Duke University. In early April, the Middle Ages engaged in an unusual skirmish with the 21st century in cities across Poland. During a Sunday mass in this overwhelmingly Catholic...
View ArticleJudge Baylor: Football, Faith, and Price of Justice
By Jeffrey Scholes, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. If the scale and scope of the self-meted punishment that Baylor doles out is truly unprecedented in a good way, then one day the school can...
View ArticleReligious Communities: Welcoming the “One-Percent”
By Shaun Casey. The success of refugee resettlement undoubtedly has required a “whole of society collaboration,” and it is a woefully under-told good news story. During the past few months, I’ve...
View ArticleChristianity and Culture in the 2016 Election
By Jim Rotholz. a katz / Shutterstock.com Election years reveal much about American culture that otherwise lies hidden from view. The 2016 presidential contest has been especially revealing, exposing...
View ArticleWhy Humanitarian Efforts Need Religious Leaders and Interreligious Dialogue
By Faisal Bin Muaammar, Secretary General of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) Faced with the greatest humanitarian...
View Article(Culture) War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
By Christopher Pieper and Nathaniel Dietrick, Baylor University. In 2002, a year after America became embroiled in the War on Terror, journalist Chris Hedges published his insightful book, War Is A...
View ArticleBrexit: What Happened? And What’s Next?
By David Binder. A day is a long time in politics. At 10pm Thursday, 23 June, polling stations closed in regard to a UK-wide referendum of the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU). In the...
View ArticleDo People Still Worship Baal?
By Nero Calatrava. Ever since the authors of the Bible portrayed Baal as a wicked god, to whom worshippers would sacrifice their first-born sons, Baal has had an image problem. It was not always thus....
View ArticleSetting the Global Table
By Rev. Dr. Joel C. Hunter. Food and faith go way back: The pretzel is supposed to remind one of a child kneeling in prayer, invented by French monks around 610 A.D. The extreme length of the...
View ArticleBreaking Our Addiction to Conflict Through Creativity
By Christopher Pieper, Ph.D. and Nathaniel Dietrick, Baylor University Understanding conflict as an attempt to fill an existential vacuum allows us see that these various battles fundamentally are...
View ArticleMike Pence on the “American Heartland” and the Holy Land
By Shalom Goldman, Middlebury College. The Republican Party platform, posted last week, gives the American-Israeli relationship considerable space. Pundits in the U.S. and Israel have duly noted the...
View ArticleUnprecedented Diversity: Influential Faith Leaders from 7 Religions Join...
By Susan Barnett, FaithSource/Auburn Seminary. Unprecedented Unity Eighteen diverse leaders for the 21st century bring organizing faith (not organizational faith) to the public square, to take on...
View ArticleWho’s Responsible for Religious Literacy Education?
By Skyler Oberst and Benjamin Marcus. Skyler Oberst and Benjamin Marcus recently completed the 2015-2016 Germanacos Fellowship. Skyler created a “Meet the Neighbor” video series in Spokane, WA to...
View ArticleIsrael Envy and Trump’s Wall
By Shalom Goldman. In the current presidential campaign, Republicans and Democrats seem to be competing with each other to proclaim their “pro-Israel” stances. In a March address to AIPAC Hillary...
View ArticleDiwali and the Election: Truth, Light, and Meaning in the Voting Booth
By Anantanand Rambachan. Diwali is the Hindu festival of light, and we pray each year to be led from untruth to truth (asato mā sad gamaya), from darkness to light (tamaso mā jyotir gamaya), and from...
View ArticleTrump as Archetype: The Golem Has Run Amok
By Shalom Goldman. A year ago, as U.S citizens of both political parties were developing a fascination with Donald Trump, no pundits came forth with a mythic or religious way to understand Trump’s...
View ArticleMormon Women: Why They Won’t Vote for Trump or Clinton
By Catharine and Melissa Richmond. A lot has been written about Mormon voters distaste for Donald Trump. What began as an initial discomfort, following Trump’s suggestion that Muslims should be...
View ArticleRespect for Women Is a Common Bond in Three Different Faiths
By Amy Gopp, Deborah Rosenbloom, and Christina Tobias-Nahi. So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. ~ Genesis 1:27, The Torah...
View ArticleLove Trumps Nothing
By Kyle Sebastian Vitale. With the November elections, as with so many recent social conflicts, the word love has re-entered our national lexicon. Hashtags, t-shirts, and protests announce that “Love...
View ArticleOffer the Other Cheek? The Risks of Listening and Peacemaking
There are dangers of speaking of the dead. Derrida warned against the possibility of using another’s death, even unintentionally, for one’s own end, or “to draw from the dead a supplementary force to...
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