Does the Institute for Religion and Democracy oppose freedom of conscience for service members?
Sacred Real Estate: What Makes Washington’s WWII Memorial So Dreadful?
What does it mean that the World War II Memorial in DC drowns conversation in the roar of its fountains? A new book explains what our monuments reveal about the intertwining of sacred and patriotic in American civic culture.
St. Paul the Pacifist: A Christian Response to Torture
In light of a recent finding that evangelical Christians are more likely, statistically, to support the use of torture, a scholar proposes an approach to nonviolence based on the teaching of Christianity’s first theologian.
Post-Modern Progressives, or Liberalism Ain’t What It Used To Be
With whom does one make alliances for the sake of peace in the world? Post-modern progressive theology does not compromise, but neither does it insist on a single truth. In its journey toward justice, it keeps its eye on the practical.
Rope of God: The Aceh Tsunami—Four Years On
The people of Aceh have been resisting foreign domination for decades, and the territory has long been torn by violence. In the wake of the tsunami a theology—and a politics—of peace is taking root.
It’s Hard to be a Jew
A scholar of nonviolence shares his struggle with Jewish identity during a time of escalating conflict and violence in Israel.
Bush’s Favorite Catholic Departs The Scene
Rev. Richard John Neuhaus broke with the Left and helped, throughout his influential career, to broker allegiances between conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics—especially around hot-button issues like stem-cell research, abortion, and gay marriage.
Letters to the Editors: On Gandhian Nonviolence
Two scholars respond to Shalom Goldman's essay, "Gandhi, His Grandson, Israel, and the Jews."
Hozan Alan Senauke talks about socially engaged Buddhism, weapons of mass redemption, and “just sitting down” as a radical act.
...Or Judaism or Christianity or Hinduism. “Remove” Islam and the world would be more peaceful; or so goes the thinking, anyway...