Category: News
Listen to Lupe, Ellison and Eboo: It’s Time to Hear From More Muslims
As I sit here contemplating Representative Peter King’s (R-NY) upcoming “Muslim radicalization” hearings, trying to discern if my stomach ache is the result of the cookies I’m... Read More
On Hockey, Honor, and the Demonized Other
On February 2, 2011, a National Hockey League game turned ugly. Two professional ice hockey teams, the New York Islanders and the host Pittsburgh Penguins, were nearing the end of a game which the f... Read More
Muslim-Americans and “We the People”
The recent events in Egypt produced many stirring images, among them those of Muslims joining hands so that Coptic Christians could hold Christmas mass unmolested in the wake of a suicide bombing outs... Read More
These Libyan Religious Scholars are My Friends Whether or Not They Want to Be
By Peter Ochs I do not know how to read or write about Scripture this week without turning again and again to the words of anguish penned by religious scholars among the broad population of Libyans cu... Read More
Speaking on Freedoms
I’m angry. On my way to work this morning, a small sidebar in the daily paper I read caught my attention. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church who were appe... Read More
SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Westboro on Funeral Protests
The Supreme Court ruling on Snyder v. Phelps was issued this morning– 8-1 in favor of Phelps, saying that the First Amendment protected the WBC’s right to protest the military funeral. Â I... Read More
Rev. Peter Gomes, R.I.P.
Harvard Chaplain, Rev. Peter Gomes, died Monday (Feb 28, 2011). This post reflects on the profound role this man's work had on my own life and understanding of the Bible.... Read More
From CD-ROM to Blogosphere: Religious Pluralism Comes Home
In February of 1998, I returned to the wintry campus of St. Olaf College, a small Christian liberal arts school in rural Minnesota, after a five-month global study trip. It was a bewildering reverse c... Read More