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“Toward a Gender-Aware Approach to Abrahamic Dialogue,” by Virginia A. Spatz
Interfaith dialogue, in practice, frequently overlooks gender as a key element in faith experiences, despite academic recognition of gender’s interaction with spirituality, religious experience,... Read More
“The Female Divine Figure within Several World Religions,” by Dorothy Yoder Nyce
This article, with Mary the Mother of Jesus as a starting point, examines the female divine in several notable living faiths. To be fixed on one deity or truth claim can imply that one alone is superi... Read More
“Royal Righteousness in the Ramayana? Faithful Leadership in India’s Mythic Masterpiece,” by Benjamin B. DeVan
Reading revered, sacred, classic, and popular religious texts and stories together is one significant way to enrich inter-religious relationships. This essay explores the Ramayana as a Hindu resource ... Read More
My Jewish Voice in the Spectrum of Interfaith Narrative
The Jewish tradition has been rearticulated in response to many intellectual revolutions, from the rapid spread of Hellenistic thought by Alexander the Great 2,300 years ago to the invention of the mo... Read More
Craving a Craving: Global Warming as a Spiritual Crisis
Like the ancient Israelites, we should be humbly appreciative, but we complain. We should work together in common cause, but we isolate ourselves into separate camps. We should humbly, simply, and hap... Read More
Meet the press (what’s left of it)
“It’s 3 a.m., and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing… Who do you want answering the phone?” Thus began a Hillary Clinton ad during ... Read More
In Defense of Snake Handling
The Rev. Mark Wolford, a popular snake-handling, Pentecostal minister, has died. The cause of death was a rattlesnake bite. A little bit of basic background: Snake-handling churches are mostly confine... Read More
Patriotism or Pentecost? by Eric Hendry
How the Feast of Pentecost was displaced by the patriotic celebration of Memorial Day this week.... Read More
The Guru Granth Sahib: An Introduction to Sikh Scripture
The central text of the Sikh religion – the Guru Granth Sahib – is a different kind of scripture. A number of features mark its distinctiveness among the scriptures of the world, including its sty... Read More