A lmost every religion makes statements or claims that are in harmony with some statements or claims of other faith traditions. For instance, the basic idea of what's called the Golden Rule is found ...

I was not a "missionary kid" when I lived for two years of my boyhood in India. My parents, after all, weren't missionaries sent by a church or a Christian missionary society. Rather, my father was ...

What I want to say about the recent death of my first wife, Marcia Albright, has only a little to do with our almost-27-year marriage, how and why it ended or our post-marital relationship. (The link ...

As journalist Anne Applebaum writes in this story in the current issue of The Atlantic about the ongoing war in Sudan: "Statistics are sometimes used to express the scale of the destruction in Sudan.

After some 11 years, the senior pastor of my congregation left almost three years ago to become the senior pastor of the American Church in Paris. Months later we hired a transitional pastor, whose ...

All these years later, what difference does any of that make? Well, it should not shock you to know that just as slavery, Jim Crow laws and much more has kept many Black people in the U.S. from ...

Less than a year after the 9/11 terrorists murdered my nephew and nearly 3,000 other people, I joined a group of other opinion journalists on a trip to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uzbekistan to write ...

Several times in the last year I've written about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what relationship, if any, it has to religion and to morality. An example from late last year is this post in which I ...

What Christianity calls the Nicene Creed is turning 1,700 years old this year, and in some ways that anniversary is raising questions about the value of creeds in any religion and why even the most ...

Here, for instance, is a story about how Muslim women have been working hard to find leadership positions in modern Islam. (By the way, when the Prophet Muhammad introduced Islam to the world, his ...

Several years ago, the then-pastor of my congregation, the Rev. Paul T. Rock, preached a sermon based on the many stained glass windows in our sanctuary, some of which are seen in this post. Paul's ...