ReligionWhat The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Means For Public Health And The Rule Of LawTo permit the denial of services to same-sex couples fails to uphold equal rights for LGBT people; whether the discrimination is based religion should be irrelevant.Jun 5, 2018Why 'Wild Wild Country' — The Bizarre Tale Of A Free-Love Cult In The American West — Resonates TodayThe extraordinary story at the heart of a new Netflix documentary raises unsettling questions about the nature of community, leadership and democracy.May 4, 2018Advertisement Endangering Children In God’s NameNew Jersey is doing the right thing by making it harder to opt out of vaccinations for religious reasons, writes Rich Barlow. Parental religion should never trump child welfare.Apr 20, 2018It’s OK To Be Conflicted About Abortion — You're Not AloneI understand that ardent pro-choice readers will disagree with me, writes Rich Barlow. What they may not know is that the rest of the world is not so ardent.Apr 18, 2018When Billy Graham Preached At HarvardThe evangelical pastor, who died last week at 99, drew an enormous crowd, writes Mark Edington. Mar 1, 2018Pope Francis Needs To Come Clean On Chilean Sex AbuseThere’s no defending the pope here, writes Rich Barlow. Catholics, especially victims of abuse, need an explanation and probably an apology from the pontiff. Feb 9, 2018My Birthright Trip Connected Me To Other Jews — But Not Through ReligionThe intense bonding that results from cramming a group of strangers into a toilet-less bus for ten days, writes Sarah Bates, transcends religious and ancestral links.Dec 18, 2017Call The 'Church Scandal' What It Is: Sexual Assault By PriestsLanguage matters, writes Lawrence Jack Cohen. Let’s eliminate the words "scandal" and "molestation" from all of our discussions of sexual assault.Jul 28, 2017The Way Forward In IraqIraq has the potential to become a model of integration of different Muslim sects, religions and ethnicities, writes Susan E. Reed. Jul 21, 2017After U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord, Faith Communities Can Lead The WayThe ecological power of religion is ultimately more efficacious than the top-down power of government, writes Dan McKanan.Jun 13, 2017Volunteering As 'Hanukkah Parents' Lets Schools Off The HookAuthor Linda Wertheimer told the Hanukkah story and helped her son and his classmates decorate wooden dreidels -- until she spent years researching how schools should teach religion.Dec 21, 2016With Love, From Harold: A Father’s War Story Offers Hope In An Uncertain TimeWe need to stand firm, her Dad would say. Judy Bolton-Fasman attempts to translate what that means today. Nov 30, 2016Faith In Trumpland: Redefining Belief In Donald Trump's AmericaThe civil religion of the 1960s was spoken largely in terms of Christianity, and more specifically Protestantism, writes Mark Edington. That is no longer a workable solution for a pluralistic...Nov 22, 2016Catholic Bishops Should Call Out Donald TrumpAs a Catholic, Rich Barlow fears the bishops are putting moral sense aside in handling the candidates.Nov 1, 2016Subsidizing Faith: Should Churches Be Taxed?If the only thing keeping some churches open is a taxpayers’ subsidy, writes Rich Barlow, it would seem the wall between church and state has big cracks.Sep 15, 2016Mother Or Muslim, Black Or White: The Tyranny Of Binary ThinkingGhazala Khan’s silence should teach us as much about ourselves as it did about Donald Trump.Aug 3, 2016Ghazala Khan And The Power Of SilenceSilence is not always suspicious. It can also be indicative of strength.Aug 1, 2016The Real Reason White Evangelical Voters Support Donald TrumpWhat has drawn so many born-again Christians to a twice-divorced, brash casino magnate with a muddled record on abortion and gay marriage? Jul 20, 2016From A Catholic To A Muslim: Let’s Shed Our Shared, Shameful Tradition Of HomophobiaNon-violent prejudice is still prejudice, and there’s always the threat that it can tip the unhinged into atrocities like we saw in Orlando.Jun 15, 2016From Charleston To Orlando And Beyond: Confronting Our Essential American SinI hope Mother Emanuel will become a place of American pilgrimage, one uniquely able to help us confront our essential American sin.Jun 9, 2016 Previous PageNext Page
What The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Means For Public Health And The Rule Of LawTo permit the denial of services to same-sex couples fails to uphold equal rights for LGBT people; whether the discrimination is based religion should be irrelevant.Jun 5, 2018
Why 'Wild Wild Country' — The Bizarre Tale Of A Free-Love Cult In The American West — Resonates TodayThe extraordinary story at the heart of a new Netflix documentary raises unsettling questions about the nature of community, leadership and democracy.May 4, 2018
Endangering Children In God’s NameNew Jersey is doing the right thing by making it harder to opt out of vaccinations for religious reasons, writes Rich Barlow. Parental religion should never trump child welfare.Apr 20, 2018
It’s OK To Be Conflicted About Abortion — You're Not AloneI understand that ardent pro-choice readers will disagree with me, writes Rich Barlow. What they may not know is that the rest of the world is not so ardent.Apr 18, 2018
When Billy Graham Preached At HarvardThe evangelical pastor, who died last week at 99, drew an enormous crowd, writes Mark Edington. Mar 1, 2018
Pope Francis Needs To Come Clean On Chilean Sex AbuseThere’s no defending the pope here, writes Rich Barlow. Catholics, especially victims of abuse, need an explanation and probably an apology from the pontiff. Feb 9, 2018
My Birthright Trip Connected Me To Other Jews — But Not Through ReligionThe intense bonding that results from cramming a group of strangers into a toilet-less bus for ten days, writes Sarah Bates, transcends religious and ancestral links.Dec 18, 2017
Call The 'Church Scandal' What It Is: Sexual Assault By PriestsLanguage matters, writes Lawrence Jack Cohen. Let’s eliminate the words "scandal" and "molestation" from all of our discussions of sexual assault.Jul 28, 2017
The Way Forward In IraqIraq has the potential to become a model of integration of different Muslim sects, religions and ethnicities, writes Susan E. Reed. Jul 21, 2017
After U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord, Faith Communities Can Lead The WayThe ecological power of religion is ultimately more efficacious than the top-down power of government, writes Dan McKanan.Jun 13, 2017
Volunteering As 'Hanukkah Parents' Lets Schools Off The HookAuthor Linda Wertheimer told the Hanukkah story and helped her son and his classmates decorate wooden dreidels -- until she spent years researching how schools should teach religion.Dec 21, 2016
With Love, From Harold: A Father’s War Story Offers Hope In An Uncertain TimeWe need to stand firm, her Dad would say. Judy Bolton-Fasman attempts to translate what that means today. Nov 30, 2016
Faith In Trumpland: Redefining Belief In Donald Trump's AmericaThe civil religion of the 1960s was spoken largely in terms of Christianity, and more specifically Protestantism, writes Mark Edington. That is no longer a workable solution for a pluralistic...Nov 22, 2016
Catholic Bishops Should Call Out Donald TrumpAs a Catholic, Rich Barlow fears the bishops are putting moral sense aside in handling the candidates.Nov 1, 2016
Subsidizing Faith: Should Churches Be Taxed?If the only thing keeping some churches open is a taxpayers’ subsidy, writes Rich Barlow, it would seem the wall between church and state has big cracks.Sep 15, 2016
Mother Or Muslim, Black Or White: The Tyranny Of Binary ThinkingGhazala Khan’s silence should teach us as much about ourselves as it did about Donald Trump.Aug 3, 2016
Ghazala Khan And The Power Of SilenceSilence is not always suspicious. It can also be indicative of strength.Aug 1, 2016
The Real Reason White Evangelical Voters Support Donald TrumpWhat has drawn so many born-again Christians to a twice-divorced, brash casino magnate with a muddled record on abortion and gay marriage? Jul 20, 2016
From A Catholic To A Muslim: Let’s Shed Our Shared, Shameful Tradition Of HomophobiaNon-violent prejudice is still prejudice, and there’s always the threat that it can tip the unhinged into atrocities like we saw in Orlando.Jun 15, 2016
From Charleston To Orlando And Beyond: Confronting Our Essential American SinI hope Mother Emanuel will become a place of American pilgrimage, one uniquely able to help us confront our essential American sin.Jun 9, 2016
