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May 2014

May 21, 2014

Same Kind of Different

An inter-religious dialogue on sex, marriage, and homosexuality raised more questions that it answered. At...

May 12, 2014

A Matter of Principle?

How long do those who believe in freedom of speech try to stay in a...

May 06, 2014

What is Spirituality?

At a recent party I was asked about my spirituality. I replied that I was...

May 05, 2014

Religious Freedom? Not So Fast.

The Christian responsibility, when invited to pray in public, is not to pray “in the...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Nope, we really don’t agree . . .

At recent dialogue event, Faiths in Coversation on April 28th here in Dallas, Doug Skinner,...

April 13, 2014

Historical Truth? Not so easy to find.

History isn't necessarily an independently verifiable account of what has happened in the past. For...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Inter-Religious Marriage and God’s Blessing

Decisions about whether particular couples who wish to be married will live their lives as...

March 25, 2014

Blaspheme and Freedom of Speech

Last night (March 24) I moderated a dialogue between Rabbi Hana Schlesinger, Imam Zia, and...

March 04, 2014

A Living Story is the Death of Arrogance

Arrogance isn't hard to find in Christian circles. It comes from believing that I, or...

February 2014

February 15, 2014

Its All About Us

Its all about us isn't it? At least one source of our Christian arrogance comes...

February 11, 2014

Arrogant Monotheism

Let's be up front. There is something about the self-understandings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam...

January 2014

January 19, 2014

Thoughts from the Holy Land 3

Lets start with a headscarf, or scarves, so that you get some idea of Bethlehem....

January 19, 2014

Thoughts from the Holy Land 2

Let me start with a map. The distance from the Jordan river (border of Jordan)...

January 19, 2014

Thoughts from the Holy Land part 1

It is New Years Eve 2013. I am sitting in a bar drinking arak on...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad

In his new work "The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad" John Andrew Morrow offers both...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

The Global Public Square?

The Global Public Square by Os Guinness Reviewed by Robert Hunt Os Guinness' latest works...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

The Stakes in Inter-Religious Relations

Those who follow this blog may have noticed a recurrent theme in the discussions. It...

August 16, 2013

Belonging to Multiple Religions? Or Owning Them?

On a recent trip I spent three days with my wife's family. You know that...

August 12, 2013

Religious Freedom? Mostly Not.

Much of the western, Christian world lives in a bizarre fantasy land concerning religious freedom....

August 07, 2013

Evangelism, Mission, and the Unimagined in Christian Discourse II

In the last blog I suggested that a Christian discourse located entirely within an immanent...

August 07, 2013

Evangelism, Mission, and the Unimagined in Christian Discourse I

At a recent conference I heard a group of theologians express surprise, and indeed disdain,...

July 2013

July 06, 2013

Imagining Democracy in the Middle East

In a previous blog (Dialogue, Politics, and the Muslim World) I pointed out that the...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Interfaith Belonging is not Inter-Religious Understanding

The central claims of Interfaith are in conflict with the claims of other religions, as...

June 09, 2013

Dialogue, Politics, and the Muslim World

The wisest possible ordering of society is revealed not in sacred books, but in free...

March 2013

March 06, 2013

The Curse of the (Social) Creed

We have turned humanity into an object of Christian faith, and social behaviors into essential...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

Establishing Religion?

Should private companies be able to establish the religious beliefs of their owners as the...

January 2013

January 12, 2013

Religious Leadership and the Religions

You aren't a leader if you can't lead across cultures in a complex religious environment. ...

January 12, 2013

Leadership, Religion, and Religions

You aren't a leader if you can't lead across cultures in a complex religious environment....

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Time to Exclude, and Invite, and be True

Recently my friend Mike Ghouse wrote an article promoting a kind of interfaith Christmas. ()...

December 09, 2012

Finally Getting It.

The Arab Spring is already becoming a bloodbath in Egypt because the Muslim Brotherhood cannot...

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