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: ...

Before I tell you about this incredible new book that recounts the history of The National Catholic Reporter, I feel a need to disclose my several connections to this courageous and resourceful ...

Yes, of course I'm glad that a few days ago the United Methodist Church decided to change its rules to allow the ordination of otherwise-qualified LGBTQ+ people to be clergy. It should have happened ...

The recent trial, conviction and sentencing of the man who murdered 11 worshipers and wounded six more at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 has, once again, put the spotlight on resurgent antisemitism in ...

Over the centuries, hatred of Jewish people has manifested itself in countless ways. The book Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, by David Nirenberg, is a pretty good place to start tracing this ...

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 ...

A remarkable new book -- one of the best I've read in a long time -- confirms something I've said more than once here on the blog and in other venues: If your theology causes you to devalue, ...

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 ...