We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning
Is there a morality that isn’t grounded in religious faith? Who are the great thinkers and moralists of that movement? Sociologist Lori Fazzino tells an interviewer that atheists are misunderstood, and just as moral as Evangelical Christians, in an interview about her graduate work and personal spiritual history.
Speaking in a panel discussion on beliefs at the Skoll World Forum, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Zak Ebrahim, author of “The Terrorist’s Son” and
Kelly Gissendaner, scheduled to be executed first in February, and then last night, has seen her execution postponed once more. The Episcopal Café reported over the weekend on Gissendaner’s
Cathy Grossman at Religion News Service reports that one in three women now claim no religious identity: Surveys have long shown women lead more active
Remarks by the President at National Prayer Breakfast, a selection: … part of what I want to touch on today is the degree to which
Photo Courtesy Robert K. Chambers US Army Chaplain David Peters found his faith severely tested after returning home from Iraq in 2006. Facing the dissolution
Brian Zahnd notes that many of us in church are more like the Pharaohs, Romans, religious leaders and royal elite than “the poor, the oppressed, the enslaved,
Suffering multiple organ failure, I had just received a grim diagnosis that I would be having a danger-laden surgery that would alter my life forever. It was the wages of a life that seemed so successful, but was undergirded by the troika of fear, doubt, and guilt – a three-legged stool.
Churches are always insufficient for the formation of faith: they are also all we’ve got. Faith is both mundane and transcendent.