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Polls say most Europeans want to ban Muslims from immigrating
When Americans demonstrated against President Trump’s recent entry ban on immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries, marchers in London, Paris, Berlin, and other European cities quickly joined ...
Alternative facts in Bonhoeffer’s Germany
Bonhoeffer is speaking to his social context, which is shaped by Nazi propaganda. But what he interrogates in Of Folly parallels our current discourse labeled as post-truth or alternative facts.
Why a Muslim police officer is suing the NYPD
(The Christian Science Monitor) A Muslim NYPD officer has filed a lawsuit against New York City and its police department, alleging th...
The roots and branches of the sanctuary movement
“We weren’t trying to break the law. We were offering humanitarian assistance.”
Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court nominee, known to bioethicists as scholar on assisted dying
Neil Gorsuch of the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, now the Supreme Court nominee, is known as a scholar on physician-assisted dying....
Frank Yamada to lead ATS after Daniel Aleshire retires
Frank M. Yamada, president of McCormick Theological Seminary, will be the next executive director of the Association of Theological Schools....
The crisis we ignore
What would it take for us to stop denying climate change—and to find reasons for hope?
When God is silent
Silence is both a historical film and a timeless commentary on power and persecution.
Apples for the refugee camp
In Greece, I saw people offer what little they had to share: child care, use of their showers, food.
Severe drought brings starving Kenyans to church doorsteps
When her pantry is empty, Agnes Mwikali walks down a dusty road to the local Roman Catholic Church mission....
Survey reveals public’s skepticism about pastors
What do pastors think about social or political issues? Americans don’t particularly want to know....
Hammer my heart
A hazard of being a pastor is that you can speak and write endlessly about God and rarely open yourself to be encountered by God.
Conversations with the other pope
Benedict XVI’s book is both unusual and important. Mostly because it never should have been written.
Trump's refugee plan divides religious leaders
(The Christian Science Monitor) For a week after President Trump’s executive orders suspending visas and immigration to the United Sta...
Good habits shape good ministers
Even the most mechanical routines can transform our inner lives.
Dakota Access pipeline to continue despite concerns for sacred sites, water
President Trump issued memoranda advancing the construction of “high priority infrastructure projects,” including one specifically about the Dakota Access pipeline, despite opposition from the indi...
Well, yes yes and no no (Deuteronomy 30:15-20; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; Matthew 5:21-37)
I came into the world cursed with the ability to see all sides of an issue.
Another cave that once housed Dead Sea Scrolls discovered
(The Christian Science Monitor) This time it was a team of archaeologists, rather than a Bedouin goat herder, who made a potentially h...