Category: News
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
Homos have a propensity…
My brother is a rock star. He is seven years younger than I and is the second author on two scientific articles (one in Advance Materials and another one in Cell). In the first article, he made an imp... 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
Guest Post: “Sixteen Tools in Sixteen Days: A Multifaith Activist Tool-Kit Against Gender Violence,” By Lisa Anderson
Thursday, November 25th, was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999, this day marks the beginning of sixteen days o... Read More
Making the Internet Moral
This post originally appeared on the Washington Post Faith Divide. Is the Internet destroying our morals? Earlier this month, Pope Benedict XVI issued a warning that the Internet was “numbing&#... Read More
Who ‘owns’ religious practice?
Is it appropriate to "borrow" religious practices from religious traditions other than our own? If so, what are the limits to such practices and how should this be done? If not, then why not?... Read More