religious pluralism
Approaching religious pluralism through the Bible’s other brothers
Tyler Mayfield offers a fresh look at Cain, Ishmael, and Esau.
by Sally Dyck
My holy envy of other faith traditions
How my attraction to other religions deepened my love of my own
Six traits of a pluralist Christian vision of human flourishing
Can Christianity make universal claims without being exclusivist?
by Miroslav Volf and Matt Croasmun
The way open to other ways: Paul Knitter, Buddhist Christian
"Buddhism has not just provided the flashlight with which I have discovered what was in the Christian basement. It has also added to that basement."
interview by David Heim
Marjorie Silva, a (Christian!) baker against hate
One baker doesn’t want to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Another baker doesn’t want to decorate a cake with the words “God hates gays.” Are the two cases comparable?
The differences may be obvious, but they’re also complex.
White Elephants on Campus, by Margaret M. Grubiak
Margaret Grubiak thinks elite university chapels have become white elephants. But some of them are cash cows—and all of them still speak.
reviewed by Alison L. Boden
Buddhists next door
Here in rural Georgia, it's hard to miss a monk in saffron robes walking through Wal-Mart. But we don't know what to think about him, so we don't.
Faith in the Public Square, by Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams favors a kind of secularism that requires an honest broker to mediate and manage genuine difference, rather than one that aspires to little more than maximized choice.
reviewed by Samuel Wells
Free on the inside
Joshua Dubler shows up at a maximum-security prison as a budding ethnographer. He becomes a man captured by friendships.
Double belonging: One person, two faiths
Americans have become accustomed to picking and choosing among religious traditions and practices. But some have taken religious pluralism in a deeper and more radical direction.