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October 2017

October 06, 2017

Kneeling in Silence: Colin Kaepernick and the Religious Rejoinder to Trump

From the moment that Colin Kaepernick sat down for the national anthem before the first...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Binding Up This Nation’s Wounds

Earlier this year, a reporter asked the great General James Mattis what threats worried him...

August 17, 2017

The Rise of Virtue Signaling: The New Put-down Hijacking Public Discourse

By viewing the proliferation of expression of righteous indignation as gratuitous or showy, we risk...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Love Trumps Nothing

By Kyle Sebastian Vitale. With the November elections, as with so many recent social conflicts,...

November 01, 2016

Trump as Archetype: The Golem Has Run Amok

By Shalom Goldman. A year ago, as U.S citizens of both political parties were developing...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

Diwali and the Election: Truth, Light, and Meaning in the Voting Booth

By Anantanand Rambachan. Diwali is the Hindu festival of light, and we pray each...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

Mike Pence on the “American Heartland” and the Holy Land

By Shalom Goldman, Middlebury College. The Republican Party platform, posted last week, gives the...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Setting the Global Table

By Rev. Dr. Joel C. Hunter. Food and faith go way back: The...

June 27, 2016

Brexit: What Happened? And What’s Next?

By David Binder. A day is a long time in politics. At 10pm Thursday,...

June 14, 2016

Christianity and Culture in the 2016 Election

By Jim Rotholz. a katz / Shutterstock.com Election years reveal much about American culture...

June 07, 2016

Religious Communities: Welcoming the “One-Percent”

By Shaun Casey. The success of refugee resettlement undoubtedly has required a “whole of society...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Poland’s Battle Between Theocracy and Secular Democracy

By Beth Holmgren, Duke University. In early April, the Middle Ages engaged in...

May 05, 2016

Daniel Berrigan and Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold: Missing Voices for Human Worth

By Shalom Goldman. April saw the passing of two very courageous American religious figures, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

Trump, Nietzsche, and the Jewish Tradition

By Rabbi Francis Nataf. An American acquaintance recently told me that there is only...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

How Much Does Race Matter? A Conversation About the Obama Presidency

By the Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson and the Rev. Dr. James Forbes. The...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Pope Francis and the Realities of Climate Change

By Sharon Friedman. Dear Pope Francis, I know you don’t know about climate change. I...

September 15, 2015

Dangers of Legitimizing Bigotry

By Richard Cizik. Last week, a Sikh American resident from the Chicago suburbs was brutally...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Outlawing the Jain Fast-Unto-Death Is a Bioethical Issue

By Brianne Donaldson. On August 10, 2015, the Rajasthan High Court outlawed the ancient...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

The Moral Case Against Drone Strikes

By Rabbi Michael Lerner. There was a brief and rare moment this year in which...

July 08, 2015

Time for a New Political Expression

By Jyl Hall Smith. It is abundantly clear that Christians have divergent opinions on last...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

An Exploration into the Evangelical Obsession with the Unborn

By Kristen Syme. On an April morning in 2008 during my brief stint at Bible...

May 2015

May 13, 2015

Why Christians Should Stand With Israel

By John Hagee. Christians should stand with Israel because the God of the Bible is...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

“Real” Islam and the Secular State

By Mark E. Gammon. In his address to the nation on Wednesday night, President Obama...

September 03, 2014

Narendra Modi and the Dawoodi Bohras: A Relationship of Profound Ambivalence

By Abdeali Ujjainwalla. Former Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s ascendency to Prime Ministership in India has...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

Quashing Jewish Dissent on Israel

By Shalom Goldman, Duke University. A New Yorker cartoon of a few years back shows...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Religion, Revelation, and the Rolling Stones

By Shalom Goldman, Duke University What do the Rolling Stones have to do with religion?...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

World Vision and the Distant Dream of Christian Unity

By Jacob Lupfer World Vision USA, a Christian relief agency that raises and spends $1 billion a...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

“And a Merry Christmas to You, Mr. Netanyahu!”

By Shalom Goldman, Duke University American Jews have long struggled with the Christmas Season. It...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Religion, State, and Soccer in Israel

by Shalom Goldman, Duke University Throughout the world sports fans can be roused to emotional...

July 2013

July 01, 2013

God Speed: “Race Cars for Peace” in the Holy City

By Shalom Goldman, Duke University In the US, spectator sports and religious conviction often go hand...