The Pew study – “How Muslims Compare With Other Religious Americans” – found that though Muslim Americans generally tend to be more politically liberal than white evangelical Christians, the two groups share similar conservative positions on a number of social issues, including that of homosexuality.
No one else in our family was religious, including an uncle who was an American Baptist minister. The rest of us were Protestants merely because we weren’t Catholic or Jewish. So it’s funny that my most enduring childhood memory of spending time with Uncle Walt and Aunt Alene is of those Sundays when they dragged me to Mass and I had to sit alone while they went up for Communion.
I am offering a word of humility for the Church: as we talk with those of other religions, and as we talk about those whom we think lack religious faith, let us remember that we might learn just as much from them as we can impart.
Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Diocese of Washington is on his way home from the two-day Oslo Conference on Religion, Democracy and Extremism. (He’s
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s important Building Bridges conference has been cancelled at the last minute by the Malaysian government. Abp. Williams has called together several
Bishop Christopher Epting relates the story of three faiths in search of common ground – real ground. A Synagogue, a Mosque and an Episcopal Church