Colin Woodward, writing in Tufts Magazine, says that there’s never been “an America,” but rather eleven Americas—each a distinct nation–each viewing violence, as well as everything else, in its own way.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a case about prayer at public governmental meetings. The Greece, N.Y. case, the first major church-state dispute to go before the Supreme Court in nearly a decade, could be a vehicle to test the current justices’ views on whether practices seen as an official “endorsement” of a religion can give rise to a valid legal claim.
Richard Burridge, Dean of King’s College London and author of the acclaimed “What Are the Gospels?” Pope Francis awarded him the prize on October 26 in Rome.
The Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) today. From the Washington Post:
Bishop Doug Fisher of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts states quite clearly that casinos are bad news for the poor. His diocese has joined a
Pope Francis is surveying Catholic bishops around the world about how to provide pastoral care in practical ways to meet the needs of modern families,
The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and The Episcopal Church filed suit yesterday in a circuit court in Peoria asking that clergy and lay members of
Marking perhaps the first consecutive sports story on The Episcopal Cafe… Rabbi Aaron Frank and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld have written an op-ed on CNN:
The Miami Dolphins scandal concerning the treatment of Jonathan Martin by veteran player Richie Incognito is the major story currently in the sports world.
Thomas Kaplan of The New York Times writes on a constitutional amendment to expand casino gambling that, with the urging of Gov. Cuomo, was passed