I am not alone in being disgusted at the latest round of partisanship in Washington that descended like the creeping mist of a horror film as Congress and the President went back and forth over the budget. Now, we learn that a "deal" has been reached by the Congressional leaders...

Editor's Note: Huffington Post Religion has launched a scripture commentary series, which will bring together leading voices from different religious traditions to offer their wisdom on selected religious texts. Next month we will have Muslim commentaries for Ramadan, and in September Jewish commentaries for the High Holidays. Each day...

Roses and more roses -- red and white. This is my earliest memory of Mother's Day. We did not go to the flower shop to get our roses as children. We went outside to the nearest rose bush growing in someone's yard or along the train tracks that ran through...

Students at Yale Divinity School have put of signs around campus designed to promote environmental awareness. The signs run a gamut of factoids, but one in particular ended up on my desk because it contained a short debate that quickly pointed out the need to think more carefully and clearly...

The latest round of clergy sex abuse scandal in Germany is following a sad and wearily predictable pattern: violation, capture, not taking the violation seriously and ignoring medical advice, cover up, wall of silence, more violation and abuse, capture, outrage, denials, shaming, removal from office or restrictions. I have watched...

Forty-four years ago, on March 7th, Alabama state troopers and a sheriff's posse broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Also known as Bloody Sunday because the troopers and posse attacked the 600 marchers with billy clubs and tear gas, it was...