How Theo-Political Discourse Is Dividing the World
By Kaleem Hussain The world as we know it is at a critical cross road. If one looks across the geometric and political divide whether be it in the West or East, the permanent features are theaters of...
View ArticleThe Illogic of Compelled “Faith”
by T.M. Doran Many believe in a Supreme Being who intentionally, artfully, and benignly created the universe and everything in it, by one process or another, including human beings who have a measure...
View ArticleMy Pro-Life Protest
by Jackie Semmens When I was a freshman in college, I took part in a pro-life protest. A group across campus took a vow of silence for a day and dressed in black to symbolize the lives that were lost...
View ArticlePersecutor, Not Protector: Assad Is Not Christians’ Savior
A year after forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began shooting pro-democracy demonstrators, sparking the war that continues today, I met with an alliance of Syrian Christians who had come to...
View ArticleThe Bible and Science Fiction: A Match Made in Heaven?
To be sure, religions, spirituality, and sacred texts play a significant role in science fiction: the Jedi from Star Wars, the Lords of Kobol from Battlestar Galactica, Shepherd Book from Firefly, and...
View ArticleA Spectrum of Faith: Religions of the World in America’s Heartland
On a cold and windy night in November 2014, a forty-foot statue of the Vietnamese bodhisattva Quan Am began radiating her compassion to the residents of Des Moines, Iowa. She is, to my knowledge, the...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Stand Up and Be the Church in the Refugee Crisis
It really boils down to this: It’s the government’s job to screen refugees, and the Church’s job to love them. That’s good to remember as we navigate this extremely complex issue in the months and...
View ArticleMoving Zionism Forward: A Conversation with the President of the American...
In a New York City bookstore in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, far-left, self-described “radicals” gather to discuss “Freedom-Fighting Under State Repression.” Contempt for everything from Israel and...
View ArticleThe Invisible Classroom: Seeing Religion’s Importance to 21st Century...
How do we implement the study of religion back into the humanities’ classroom? What steps can educators take right now toward a more inclusive classroom environment?
View ArticleWhite Privilege: A Latter-day Saint’s Perspective
“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required.” (Luke 12:48) You know in testimony meeting when a person says they didn’t want to stand up and speak but felt that they needed to?...
View ArticleThe Rise of Virtue Signaling: The New Put-down Hijacking Public Discourse
By viewing the proliferation of expression of righteous indignation as gratuitous or showy, we risk downplaying the unceasing cascade of issues worthy of our indignation.
View ArticleBinding Up This Nation’s Wounds
Earlier this year, a reporter asked the great General James Mattis what threats worried him most. Mattis, whose job as U.S. Secretary of Defense is to protect us from a nuclear North Korea, radical...
View ArticleKneeling in Silence: Colin Kaepernick and the Religious Rejoinder to Trump
From the moment that Colin Kaepernick sat down for the national anthem before the first preseason game in August 2016 (he began kneeling for the regular season in September), much of white America made...
View ArticleSecondary Separation, in Islam
In fundamentalist Christian circles there is an approach to the world known as ‘secondary separation’. While the Bible notes Christians are not of this world, there is tension when Jesus says they are...
View ArticleHow We Use Faith in the Face of Fear
Embed from Getty Images What can we possibly do in the face of evil? Why does God allow bad things to happen, like the shootings in Texas and Las Vegas, and multiple others? As I sit here and read...
View ArticleThe Idea of God Beyond Religion
Spirituality beyond religion is not an empty position for those preoccupied with believing niceties; it's a necessary step toward more coherent and plausible spiritual worldviews.
View ArticleThe Met’s Catholic “Fashion” and the Muslim Imagination
This month’s Met Gala broke the internet, as intended. This time with celestial, papal, regal flair. But beyond the outrageous red-carpet sequins—the sexy angels and coquettish monks—the theme of the...
View ArticleCould This Woman Bring Down The Southern Baptist Convention?
There is an image the Southern Baptist Convention cannot afford to have taken at their annual meeting this year. It’s the image of Southern Baptist men denying access to a Southern Baptist pastor...
View ArticleFor Father’s Day, Let’s Discuss How Men Can Help Women be Less Vulnerable
By Dan Haseltine There are few areas of life where a man should feel as slippery-footed as when he is discussing topics related to women. Men, historically, even with an abundance of resources—from...
View ArticleDo Not Tolerate the Intolerable: Public Shaming Can Be a Justice Action
Jesus of Nazareth publicly shamed those leaders he saw were committing injustice in his time, calling them out (Matt. 23:13). Jesus didn’t hesitate to be confrontational. "You hypocrites!" he cried...
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