Category: Social Issues
Muslim Soldiers Serve Our Country With Valor
Since September 11th, the United States Department of Defense has tried to inform those in uniform about Islam in what appears to be a significant effort to avoid outbursts of Islamophobia or the mist... Read More
Call for Submissions: Role of Religion in Revolution
What makes a revolution? Every case is unique. Popular uprising may be spontaneous – the explosive flames of an already primed and oiled wick – or it may be long-awaited and slow to spark... Read More
Stephen Hawking’s Other Insight
I am sitting in Oregon, adoring the all-too-brief bouts of sunshine interrupting the more extended periods of drizzle. The sky is clouded, as it apparently often is in this part of the world, and for ... Read More
The End of the World Ain’t What it Used To Be
Three words – Harold Camping & Rapture: Sound familiar? Last Saturday, May 21, 2011, as 6PM neared in all the time zones around the world, Facebook and cell phones were on fire with people a... Read More
Islamophobia: Increasingly Ordinary and Therefore Most Terrible
In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Leo Tolstoy scathingly wrote of a protagonist whose life was “most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” Such may also be said of the ruling put... Read More
A Voice of Protest: “I am a realist…”
“Because of such an attitude…Bahá'ís are often accused of holding aloof from the ‘real problems’ of their fellowmen. But when we hear this accusation let us not forget that those who make it... Read More
Beyond Borders: Gender, Nature and the Rabbis
Last week I heard Dr. Joy Ladin speak at our local community shul. Dr. Ladin is a professor of English at the orthodox institution Stern College at Yeshiva University and the first out trans professor... Read More
An Atheist and The Mount Soledad Cross Controversy
The 29-foot Easter Cross on Mount Soledad in La Jolla, California, has become a considerable controversy throughout the United States. Since 1913 this cross has been located on state land. In 1989... Read More