Jay Michaelson

Lama Surya Das is one of the handful of Westerners who have been teaching meditation for decades. And yet, he says we’re doing it wrong....

(RNS) I’m not supposed to like this idea. It was put forward by a conservative Christian pastor who says that “Faithful American Christians are increasingly under attack across the country by the gay lobby.” And it’s a proposal for Christian-owned small businesses who don’t want to serve people like me: gay people, especially ones who are out, loud, and proud.

Is anti-Semitism rising on U.S. college campuses? According to most statistics, yes — but the phenomenon is far more complicated than it first appears, primarily because everyone oversimplifies it.

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Malcolm Boyd, who died on Friday (February 27) at the age of 91, lived three lives—and he gave each up for the next....