By the Way: “God Tells Me I’m Right”
During the recent “Compassion Forum,” Obama challenged the American religious community…
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What Kind of A Church Can Prevent a Holocaust?
At a time when spokesmen for the church were asserting that Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was a ‘gift of God,’ a courageous woman tried to get her fellow Christians to act to save the Jews. A new film, Elisabeth of Berlin, tells her story through the voices of church leaders, historians, and those who knew her.
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Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative
“Come Let Us Reason Together,” which focused on building bridges between white evangelicals and progressives, unleashed strong criticism from the religious left, much of which challenged the initiative’s definition of “progressive.” Robert P. Jones, an adviser to CLURT, responds.
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Roll Over Lenin: Russian Church Elects New Patriarch
The new Patriarch is considered a modernist, but his support for freedom of religion is spotty, and Russia’s fledgling gay rights movement will not find an ally in Kirill.
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Found in Translation: How a Thirteenth-Century Islamic Poet Conquered America
The best-selling poet in America today was born in Afghanistan, practiced a form of Islam that originated in Iraq, and has been dead for 800 years. How did a white man from Tennessee, who doesn’t read a lick of Persian, make Rumi accessible to mainstream America?
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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.
Read MoreFaith in Public Life Responds: Common Ground Gets Results
In “Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party,” journalist Sarah Posner examined the role of DC outfits like Faith in Public Life, who seek to find common ground among disparate religious organizations. Here, FPL responds.
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Killing the Prophet: The Spanish Exception
In a small town in Spain, a yearly festival celebrates the hybrid racial and cultural identities, both Christian and Muslim, of the local populace—a ritual of reconciliation.
Read MoreSister Rose and a Teenager’s First Headscarf
A Pakistani girl and a Nun square off over religious expression.
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