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June 2015

June 27, 2015

Gay Marriage: The Real Victory

The real victory in the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage was secularity, and its...

June 19, 2015

Anxiety and Extremism – Religion’s Gift?

Jewish extremists torch a famous Christian shrine on the Sea of Galilee. Of course the...

June 18, 2015

Religious Advocacy Vs. Freedom of Speech

Freedom of speech is under attack, but perhaps not from the direction you might imagine....

April 2015

April 10, 2015

Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)- Restoring Tribalism to US Law.

What is the freedom of religion that religion needs? In recent years some Evangelical Christians, represented...

April 07, 2015

Muslims on the Rise? Misreading the Pew Report

AHHHHHH! The Muslims are coming the Muslims are coming. I’d barely seen the headlines before...

March 2015

March 21, 2015

Anti-Semitism Raises its Ugly Head in Irving TX

Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne has succeeded in getting the Irving City Council to vote...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Iconoclast or Jackass

It really depends. One of my favorite characters in fiction, Commissioner Brunetti in Donna Leon’s...

February 14, 2015

Outrage and Anxiety

A couple of weeks ago there was a brief outbreak of good ole American outrage here...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Civil Dialogue

The problem with the columnists, commentators, politicians, pundits, and pastors is that they honestly believe...

January 18, 2015

Speaking the Same Language

I was recently asked by a reporter to discuss why it is that Christians, Muslims,...

January 18, 2015

Wonder and Dialogue

I decided to spend my Christmas holidays exploring a mystery. What, I wondered, is the...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Incarnation

In which I take a break from inter-religious relations to consider a breakdown in a...

December 28, 2014

The Most . . . .?

We need to get small to get real. . . . Flying back from Jerusalem...

December 25, 2014

Moses at the Manger

Jesus comes with more baggage than Santa Clause. On my flight to Vienna Lufthansa offered,...

December 02, 2014

Dialogue in Context – Israel/Palestine

A few days ago I received a number of emails concerning the speech the President...

October 2014

October 09, 2014

Inter-religious Dialogue past Modernity

The obvious must sometimes be said: for inter-religious dialogue to be of any value those...

October 06, 2014

The Human Role in Religion

The idea that the human relationship to religion is of questioner to provider of answers...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Discrimination Pure and Simple

The trending line on facebook had an appalling headline. "Beheading in Oklahoma." The link took...

September 18, 2014

Fear and Analysis

The most common, the most popular framework for analyzing religion in America appears to be...

September 15, 2014

When Dialogue Must Stop

A summer of violence is winding to an end, with yet another war between Israel...

September 10, 2014

Is Islam a Religion of Peace?

Is Islam a Religion of Peace? Yes and No. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and...

September 01, 2014

Indifference, not Skepticism, is the issue.

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Public Square 2014 Summer Series: Conversations on Religious Trends. Read...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

The Agnostic and the Atheist

Is agnosticism an tenable position in a religiously plural society? No. In my recent travels...

July 2014

July 11, 2014

Dialogue with Atheists II

My last blog generated some interesting discussions. The interview below covers some of the issues...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Interfaith Dialogue with Atheists

Real dialogue is necessary, not over the important secondary matter of whether God exists, but...

June 07, 2014

Getting Nowhere. . .

Each year I ask my students to write papers that have a clear thesis statement,...

June 02, 2014

Got Religion? Maybe this book can help you.

Naomi Schaefer Riley sums up what she learned about getting post-college millenials back to the...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Irrelevance of “God”

Maybe it is time we just drop the word God from our vocabulary in inter-religious...

May 21, 2014

Who did you say you represent?

How can there be a dialogue about sexuality with only men? How can there be...

May 21, 2014

Sexual Desire versus Sexuality

We may call ourselves and others human, but that is a word that hides more...

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