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June 10, 2025

The Hidden Christians

In the 16th century, Jesuit missionaries brought Christianity to Japan. But then the Shoguns exterminated...

January 2025

January 16, 2025

A Religion You Should Know About

In reading up on the civil war in Syria, I learned that the recently overthrown...

February 2024

February 02, 2024

How One Editor Transformed American Religion

[a free post] In the 1920's, books about religion were the second biggest-selling genre, next...

February 12, 2019

Pope Says God Wills the Diversity of Religions

At the Pope's recent visit to Abu Dhabi, he and the Muslim Grand Imam...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

In Defense of Proselytizing

Fellow Patheos blogger Mark Driscoll has written a long and thoughtful post on the teaching...

June 2018

June 12, 2018

The Difficulty of Defining Religion

Australia is working through how to guarantee the freedom of religion in light of their...

June 26, 2017

Most Christians have non-Christian worldviews

A new study from Barna has found that most "practicing Christians" in America--defined as those...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

Open communion that includes Muslims

In Atlanta during Holy Week, the entire diocese of the Episcopal Church held a Mass in...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

Many gods were invoked at the Inauguration service

The traditional Inauguration Service at the National Cathedral was an interfaith service featuring Hindus, Muslims,...

January 12, 2017

Interfaith service surprise

The Anglican cathedral in Glasgow, in its interfaith zeal, invited a Muslim to read from...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Islamic exceptionalism

We keep hearing, "All religions are essentially the same." But no they aren't! That sentiment...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

The claim that Muslims and Christians worship the same God

We Missouri Synod Lutherans went through this controversy some years ago. . . .A professor...

October 2014

October 01, 2014

The problem with public official prayers

We believe in freedom of religion, something that is becoming more and more important to...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Anglicans starting a “pagan church”

The Church of England is breaking new ground in being "missional," in the sense of...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Atheists want to participate in interfaith services

Atheists in Boston are complaining that they haven't been invited to participate in the interfaith...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Secular prayer

Most legislative bodies in this country begin with a prayer, whether by an official chaplain...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Projecting Christianity onto other religions

David Forsmark makes a point made by our own loyal reader, author, and Nordic expert...

February 11, 2013

“God is really blessing the LCMS”

Todd Wilken with an important reminder in light of the uproar over the Lutheran Church...

February 08, 2013

Lutheran crisis deja vu

Pastors of the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod are not allowed to participate in joint worship services,...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Pagan temple found just outside Jerusalem

An ancient pagan temple was found just three miles from Jerusalem. It dates from the...

July 2012

July 09, 2012

The latest mission strategy: “Insider Movements”

We've blogged about those translations of the Bible for Muslims that avoid little terms like...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

Religious preference & too many gods

The great sociologist of religion Peter Berger comments on the project of Andrew Bowen, who...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Chrislam?

Rick Warren, megachurch pastor and author of the Purpose Driven Life, is working to reconcile...

February 16, 2012

He is Jewish, Christian, AND Muslim

Sean Stone, son of the conspiracy-theorist filmmaker Oliver Stone, has converted to Islam in a...

September 2011

September 09, 2011

One legacy of 9/11: More interfaith services

Ecumenical News International reports that the number of interfaith worship services--that is, those in which...

July 2011

July 20, 2011

When government embraces religion

A speaker at the National Press Club called for making religion central to our foreign...

March 2011

March 24, 2011

Apocalyptic madness

The Lutheran journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto has written a piece about the current apocalyptic mood and...

March 15, 2011

Yet another new step in open communion

Thanks to nqb for alerting us to yet another new horizon of open communion: not...