What truly deserving champion of peace did the Nobel committee slight this year in the process? None to my knowledge.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Time to dust off my Union Theological Seminary creds and weigh in on prayer.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Saad Khan | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The lack of major bloodshed in Pakistan is 'compensated for' by regular attacks on religious minorities and the desecration of their religious and personal assets.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living
"What religion are you?" my 13 year-old son Seamus asked me last night. His mother and I have been divorced since he was six months old. He's grown up a strict Catholic. I was born a Quaker.
Naveen Naqvi | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home
Worshipers said that as the gunmen opened fire they declared Pakistan would become a graveyard of Christians to avenge deaths in Afghanistan.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green
August 3rd should be a national day of atonement for our sins against the American mountains and mountaineers.
Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
Even in Islamic countries not strictly run by Sharia law, pressures mount on local Christians to leave the homes they've known for centuries.
AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — A Christian woman accused of distributing the Bible, a book banned in communist North Korea, was publicly executed last mon...
Wayne Besen | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Is there a significant market for an enlightened, modern Christianity that focuses on loving, rather than loathing one's neighbors?
AP | JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police Wednesday freed nine Christians who were arrested and held overnight after a university official mista...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
The Internet guarantees we will all hear the Evil, see the Evil, but it cannot make us care about Evil. And as recent events in Iran proved -- Technology cannot defeat Evil -- only people can.
AP | QASSIM ADBUL-ZAHRA | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials tightened security around churches in Baghdad and in two mostly Christian towns on Monday and braced for possible viol...
Nadya Khalife | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
Lebanese women won the right to vote in national elections 19 years before women in Switzerland. Yet political participation by Lebanese women remains dismal at the national level.
Suzette Standring | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
Christian buying power can change business for the better. Integrity, excellent products and wholesome advertising beget loyalty from a demographic that spends $1.5 trillion annually.
Center For American Progress | Lester Feder | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
The recession is taking its toll on the conservative movement, and religious right leaders' intellectual rigidity is helping to put a nail in the coff...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
It is good to see so many progressive voices condemning this bigoted and twisted act of violence. However, much of the analysis of this incident seems to skirt a more troubling and confounding question.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Obama's speech to the Arab and Muslim World is creating a new context in which the people of the Middle East can more clearly see justice without the need for more violence.
Jim Lichtman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Is Obama's openly engaging, pragmatic style working to close the "God gap" in American politics?
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 07.01.2009 | Home
I am "an old Jewish white man." I am also Father, Grandfather, and an ex Husband. How else or who else could I be? I have an opinion about everyth...
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment
The next time there's an Idol final, I'm not gonna listen to their singing, I'm gonna look into their soul. Maybe, just maybe the one that appeals to the heartland more has the better shot.
Ray Hanania | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
Why should Palestinians stop fighting for that land when their role models are the very Israelis who said they wanted their homeland back too? They waited 2,000 years. It's been only 61 for us.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
Before arriving in the region, the Vatican billed the visit as spiritual rather than political. In fact, from day one his trip was mired with political controversies.
AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Benedict XVI began his first trip to the Middle East on Friday, expressing his "deep respect" for Islam and hopes that the ...
Rob Asghar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World