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How Contemporary Christian Worship Music May Bring About Interfaith

Posted on November 20, 2012November 20, 2012 by Trey Palmisano

I admit that I am a self-confessed church hopper. I wear this badge of life-long spiritual seeking with both courage and regret. When something becomes stale, when the community looks too comfortable ... Read More

How Do You #Keep the Sabbath?

Posted on November 14, 2012November 13, 2012 by Alasdair Ekpenyong

–“The Pharisees said, This man is not from #God, because He does not keep the #Sabbath” -#John 9:16 It was a Sunday morning in April when a man named Tagg uploaded a picture of his... Read More

The Next American Century: Love is the Law.

Posted on August 29, 2012April 2, 2014 by Ted Dedon

In the next American century we face a choice. It is a test. Will we Rise to the occasion and Do the "Right" Thing? Governor Chris Christie says, "I won't be part of the generation that fails that t... Read More

A Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Chic-Fil-A Controversy: An Observation

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Trey Palmisano

The Chic-Fil-A controversy made us painfully aware of our differences that reflect both religious and political commitments. In the following weeks, a lone gunman attempted to enter the offices of FRC... Read More

Keep It Up, Sisters

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Christina Yost

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

So, a Christian Seminary Student Walks into a Mosque…

Posted on May 8, 2012May 7, 2012 by Christina Yost

I went and visited a mosque a couple of weeks ago as part of a class assignment where we were supposed to visit a congregation or faith community different than our own. Where specifically we visited ... Read More

Christian Counterculture

Posted on February 1, 2012February 1, 2012 by Christina Yost

A Google search of “Christian counterculture” nets almost 3,950,000 hits. While Youtube does not have nearly as many hits for that same phrase, there are almost 150 videos that I found expressing ... Read More

Should Clergy Advise Couples To Have Extra-Marital Affairs?

Posted on July 20, 2011July 18, 2011 by Joshua Ratner

A couple weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine’s cover story, entitled “Infidelity Keeps Us Together” described the efforts of popular sex columnist, Dan Savage, to adopt a more tolerant attitu... Read More

“Coming Out Jewish”

Posted on July 17, 2011July 17, 2011 by Yaira Robinson

Trembling slightly, I pulled the folded paper out of my pocket and opened it. I held it tightly; I needed that paper. On it were the printed words that would guide my dry mouth and racing thoughts thr... Read More

Interfaith Dialogue in the Pulpit—Proclaiming an Emerging Gospel: A 21st Century Imperative

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Journal of Inter-Religious Studies

In this article the author reviews the context of contemporary American Christian experience, which is a thoroughly multi-religious, pluralistic context. The article argues for an approach to Christ... Read More