Category: Challenges
Susan Harrison: Why I am committed to building relationships with those from different religious and ethical traditions
Managing Director’s Note: beginning in the Spring of 2013, all Contributing Scholars will answer the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with ... Read More
Losing Your Religion? Keep the Faith!
In Terence Nichol’s 2003 book The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism he begins with an anecdote where two sets of Catholic children are asked the question “Wher... Read More
The Role and Size of Government: A Religious Issue by Rabbi Dennis S. Ross
I shudder when folks praise Ronald Reagan’s definition of government as a national problem, just as I hate when lawmakers threaten to undermine Social Security or food stamp programs. After all, wha... Read More
The NRA has no shame. Let’s give them some.
Keep this in mind, as it will be important later: In 2002, one David Gardner paid a visit on Long Island, N.Y., to relatives of Adolf Hitler who had lived in the United States for five decades under a... Read More
Why I am committed to building relationships with those from different religious and ethical traditions
Managing Director’s Note: beginning in the Spring of 2013, all Contributing Scholars will answer the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with ... Read More
Finding Faith That’s Reasonable
“How should one explain the possibility of knowledge? And how should one account for the reality of the external world?” I have no idea. The above quote comes from Gary Dorrien’s new book Ka... Read More
Losing My Faith, Reclaiming My Religion
If there is one thing you would like to see change in your faith or ethical tradition over the next ten years, what would it be? What role would you want to play? The one thing I would most like t... Read More
The Megaphone of Money in American Politics
While the sums are larger and the stakes are higher in recent times, the fear that money corrupts those in power is an age-old issue. As far back as the Hebrew Bible those concerned with justice warne... Read More