“The words of Jesus, from the Hebrew scripture, call us to love God completely, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. I cannot think of a better moment to put this ancient law into a new practice.”
Cathy Lynn Grossman of Religion News Service writes: U. S. religious congregations are marching to their own drums now more than ever. The National Congregations
“What I was trying to describe, one of the most powerful images of the 11th, that I’d read in the paper, some of the people coming down were talking about the emergency workers who were ascending. And you know, that was just an image I felt left with, after that particular day. The idea of those guys going up the stairs, up the stairs, ascending, ascending.”
From Religion News Service:
The Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project asked Americans to rate how they feel about different religious groups on a “feelings thermometer.” Guess what? We tend to like people who think and act like us.
In On Faith and Culture, Jonathan Merritt examines the popularity of Pope Francis in America and what it might reveal about American attitudes toward Christianity
In the midst of debate about immigrant children crossing the U.S. border from Central America, the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings notes that “the baby Jesus
As America becomes a more secular nation, the number of citizens who believe that religion can “answer all or most” of today’s problems is decreasing:
Some faith leaders have issued a public letter asking the White House to provide religious groups an exemption from the president’s executive order barring LBGT
Here is a trend likely to divide Cafe readership between those who believe that religious organization on U. S. campuses should have to play by