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A conversation with David Brooks about sin and beauty
“We live differently than we say we live. There’s moral judgment all around.”
A rabbi’s memoir of making a family
Anyone with a complicated life and family—all of us—will find a home in Susan Silverman’s story.
After 500 years, a new synagogue opens in Sicily
More than 500 years after the Jews were expelled from Sicily, a tiny Jewish community will open its first synagogue in the island’s capital city of Palermo....
My prayer on MLK Day: Forgive us the sin of patience
There’s a time for reconciliation, for prayers for unity and healing. This is not such an hour.
How King’s political vision became politically irrelevant
Niebuhr’s political realism won, but it’s King’s radical politics that we need in this neoliberal, neofascist era.
Ibrahim Nseir, pastor in Aleppo, works to be a 'sign of hope'
Ibrahim Nseir was chatting at a Beirut hotel in late November with others attending a gathering of Protestant leaders from around the Middle East and beyond when a call came from his wife in Aleppo...
February 12, Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
Deuteronomy 30:15–20; 1 Corinthians 3:1–9; Matthew 5:21–37
A church for disciples (John 1:29–42)
So often the call to discipleship slides into becoming a call to church membership.
The martyrs of Debre Libanos
Under Mussolini, Christian soldiers obeyed orders to target the Ethiopian church.
Paula White, prosperity gospel televangelist, to pray at inauguration
Paula White, a televangelist and prosperity gospel advocate, was chosen to deliver an invocation at Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20....
Huston Smith, author of world religions text, dies at age 97
Huston Smith, author of the popular textbook The World’s Religions, died December 30 at age 97....
Whatever replaces Obamacare will face the same challenges
Sick people need coverage. Insurers need healthy customers, too. Everyone needs to be able to afford it.
All of us are beautiful
Our identities—gender and otherwise—are shaped by community and God.
The Buddha and the Pantocrator
Buddhist statues and Orthodox icons aren't always symmetrical. Neither are we.
In black Charleston, a struggle to find both justice and mercy
(The Christian Science Monitor) Charleston variety store owner Leon Fields pondered the question of whether Dylann Roof should die for...
Dylann Roof, the unrepentant
I despise the murderer of the Emanuel Nine, and all he stands for. But I can't embrace his death.
Food justice is about workers
"I paid for college by working at restaurants. That gave me a worm's eye view."
Thinking with trans
Rogers Brubaker considers transracial and transgender identities together.
Addicted to hating Trump
It's one thing to oppose harmful actions. It's another to need to be right.