Category: Academic
Does Stephen Prothero read SoF?
This post recommends and responds to a recent blog post by Stephen Prothero on CNN's Belief Blog.... Read More
Future Religious and Ethical Leaders Ask The Hard Questions — Together
This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post Religion. “‘Thou shalt not’ might reach the head, but it takes ‘Once upon a time’ to reach the heart.” So said ... Read More
Guest Post: “Shari’a and Human Rights from an Enlightened, Islamic Perspective,” By Paola Bernardini
Dr. Paola Bernardini is Russell Berrie Fellow in Interreligious Studies at the John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue, St. Thomas Aquinas University (Angelicum), Rome.... Read More
As Iron Sharpens Iron, So Does One Religious Tradition (As Well As Atheism) Sharpen Another
If all truth is God's truth, we must be free to explore it.... Read More
The Apple of the Eye of the Storm
My spiritual journey began when I was 7 and I declared that I absolutely did not believe in God. I declared that God was a preposterous hypothesis, of which I had no need. These days, when I m... Read More
The Simulacra of Yoga
No one wants to believe in fakery. Whatever we believe or do, we want it to be authentic. In a recent post about the Hindu American Foundation’s statement on the place of yoga as a Hindu pract... Read More
Proceeding along the aporetic path
This post is inspired by / in response to a recent post by Honna Eichler. It explores questions of community and responsibility and the difficulty of discerning one's call.... Read More
Muslims Become Integral to American Seminaries
This article was originally published on the Common Ground News Service in five languages. Seminaries, higher education institutions where professors of religion and religious leaders train students t... Read More