Religion Dispatches
Bush-era intelligence briefings featured cover pages subtitled with decontextualized and misunderstood scripture in deference to the piety of the administration. Where were the Christian and Jewish moderates, and why didn’t they denounce this extremism?
Read MoreFrom Kosher to Eco-Kosher to Righteously Kosher, Jews are amplifying the notion of the sacredness of food to include care for workers and the environment.
Read MoreTony Campolo admits that evangelical Christianity offers little to a lesbian or gay Christian—except loneliness, maybe.
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Father Alberto Cutie has admitted to falling in love with a woman and breaking his vow of celibacy. Is it time for the celibacy of the priesthood to end?
Read MoreRD blogger Hussein Rashid, disturbed by the silence of the American Muslim community on torture, drafted this statement. Who will sign?
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Collision on the interfaith highway…
Read MoreA flock, maybe, but certainly not sheep; nuances of the pulpit-pew relationship.
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A recent poll showed that white evangelicals are the religious group most likely to support torture. How can that be?
Read MoreWhen we judge people by their past mistakes we lose our own moral ground; we are all in need of repentance and grace.
Read MoreIn hard economic times choices must be made and Jewish philanthropies are letting go of cherished educational organizations. Reminds us of a classical ethical question about survival in the desert…
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