When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society
A review of Eboo Patel’s new book, “Interfaith Leadership: a Primer.”
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Thanks But No Thanks: How a Noted Theologian’s Defense of Larycia Hawkins Goes Bizarrely Astray
Miroslav Volf’s recent WaPo op-ed is an example of the kind of interfaith intervention we’d be better off without.
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Talmud on Trial: Interfaith Dialogue in the 13th Century
We tend to assume that interfaith dialogue is automatically a good thing, and that the best way to learn about another religion is to study its texts and its official positions. The Paris trial challenges both.
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From Closeted Evangelical to Unapologetic Atheist: A “Faitheist” Manifesto
Dialogue between atheists and the religious is an absolute minefield. I can promise you there are no kumbaya drum circles in this book—if that’s your thing, great, but it isn’t mine, and it doesn’t have to be your thing to get involved in efforts that promote religious pluralism.
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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril
There’s been a lot of talk in the American atheist movement about social justice, but why doesn’t it include justice for religious minorities like Muslims and Sikhs?
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The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel
In light of recent events in the small Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, many in the modern Jewish world have argued the haredim (ultra-Orthodox) have crossed a line.
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Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?
A bold new forum was recently organized to confront a persistent problem in Jewish-Christian relations in Jerusalem. But why are Ultra-Orthodox Jewish teens spitting on Christians in the first place?
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Dispatches from the Beltway: The New Public Face of Religion
The surprising results of the latest Pew survey on religion in America.
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Podcast: Eboo Patel on Islam, Pluralism, and the “Faith Line”
The Faith Line, as Eboo describes it, does not separate people of different religions but separates religious pluralists on the one hand and religious totalitarians on the other.
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Op-Ed: God is Green
Earth Day, 2008: An American Muslim reflects on the ethic of environmental protection in Islam.
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