This weekend on State of Belief, what role did Jews play in the discovery of the New World? Author Ed Kritzler shares stories from his book, Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of [...]
There was an interesting piece on NPR’s Morning Edition about evangelical author, speaker and lecturer, Brian McLaren, whose work has drawn the fire of Al Mohler, president of the Southern [...]
In the Tuesday March 23rd New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/opinion/23herbert.html ) Bob Herbert wonders if we will allow ourselves to remain silent as foaming-at-the-mouth [...]
This weekend on State of Belief, what did a self-proclaimed secular Jew learn when she went undercover at Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church? Author Gina Welch discusses her new [...]
“[Employees] are expected to act in ways that promote the best interest of our faith and church.”
Take a guess at where this sentence is from. Looking at it out of context, I’d assume it’s part [...]
A spate of recent articles examine the potential overlap between the goals of the Religious Right and those of the Tea Party movement and all three of these pieces add another layer of nuance to [...]
This weekend on State of Belief, Religion News Service’s Daniel Burke tells us about the seven people who make up what he calls President Obama’s “spiritual” cabinet. [...]
You just can’t make this stuff up. Today, the Texas State Board of Education voted on a variety of amendments to the state social studies and U.S. government curricula. Get ready to be appalled [...]
“Did you accomplish anything this week?” That question, posed to me every weekend by one or more people, raced through my head repeatedly as I spent most of Tuesday in a meeting in an office of [...]
But not necessarily for the beaches… According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, Jamaica is adding a new attraction to draw tourists: its Jewish history. The island’s [...]