Category: Interfaith
Keep It Up, Sisters
There seems to have been a lot of “not Catholic” labeling happening in the past few months. Earlier this month, Margaret Farley’s 2006 book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics was... Read More
Making Room for People With Disabilities
Here in Illinois, Governor Quinn has been pushing hard to close state institutions for people with developmental disabilities, along with some prisons and state mental hospitals. There are a handful o... Read More
Speaking of Israel
More than one of my politically and religiously liberal friends, when I told them I was converting to Judaism, gave as one of their first responses, “What about Israel?” Good question. What abo... Read More
Wanted: More bully pulpit, less bullying
In ranking American presidents on the he-man macho scale, Theodore Roosevelt will score pretty high on almost any judge’s sheet. But when he talked about using the “bully pulpit,” he was using t... Read More
Sikhs and Civil Rights: Standing on the Shoulders of Dr. King
This past Friday, the White House hosted the first-ever policy briefing on Sikh civil rights issues. Amardeep Singh, Director of Programs for the Sikh Coalition and Commissioner for the White House In... Read More
Call for Submissions: Religion and Politics
Call for Submissions for the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ Issue 11: Religion & Politics Given the undeniable impact of political affairs upon religious matters and of religion upon such ... Read More
“Living into Interfaith” By Martin Davis
The trees surrounding All Saints Church, like the driveway weaving around them, were frozen. A dusting of snow atop the ice made people’s walks from their cars to the church’s side door precarious... Read More
“Not the Jesus I Love: Waco Residents Perception of the Branch Davidian Conflict” by Janet Jensen
On April 19, 1993, the 51-day standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians at Mount Carmel, a compound located close to Waco, Texas, came to what the Waco Tribune Herald described as a “fiery e... Read More