Year: 2007

Prayer in changing seasons

Mindfulness and awareness, though the essential foundation of a life of prayer, are not in themselves sufficient. There must be some structure and framework, regular times for prayer, particularly shared prayer, and it is these that Benedict is establishing here [in Chapter 8 of the Rule]. Prayer

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A Door that Leads Everywhere

On View: Door with Ivy, Photograph by Lynn Park, San Francisco, California. For more information about the photography of Lynn Park, contact the Art Editor.

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A revisionist history of tolerance

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg,” Jefferson could write in 1781. A century earlier, such individualism was unthinkable to most Europeans. Indulging heresy, as Benjamin Kaplan points out in his new history of religious tolerance, threatened not only to pick their pockets but also to endanger their souls.

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Was Shakespeare Roman Catholic?

For several years, Shakespeare scholars have speculated on whether William Shakespeare had been a closeted Catholic. The Rev. David Beauregard, a Roman Catholic priest who teaches Shakespeare at the seminary of St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine in Boston, has published a new book that makes the case that Shakespeare was indeed Catholic.

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New Washington Post Faith Blog

Faith is more than beliefs. It is about right and wrong, justice and injustice — about remaking the world. “Faith in Action” is a new blog that tracks the activities of people of faith across the globe and across religious traditions. It maps their engagement around critical issues, from global health to the environment — from AIDS to zebras.

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New York Times Notable Books

The December 2, 2007 New York Times Sunday Book Review will feature its lists of the editors’ call on the 100 most notable books of the year. While the print version of the list is a week away, the list is now available online, and a remarkably large number of the books have religious themes.

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Christ the King

O Lord; O King, resplendent on the citadel of heaven,

all hail continually;

and of your clemency

upon your people still have mercy.

Lord, whom the hosts of cherubim in songs and hymns

with praise continually proclaim,

upon us eternally have mercy.

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Christian/Islamic dialog continues

Several weeks ago, 138 Muslim scholars, sent a lengthy letter entitled ‘A Common Word Between Us and You,’ to Pope Benedict and other Christian leaders. Last week, numerous American Christian scholars responded positively with a letter of their own. In these clips from Voice of America and National Public Radio, Episcopal Bishop John Bryson Chane and his friend Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, take the converstion further.

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