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In the News for July 25th
A Religious Legacy, With Its Leftward Tilt, Is Reconsidered “For decades the dominant story of postwar American religious history has been the triumph of evangelical Christians.” Read the full article...
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Peacemaker Priest Still Missing in Syria
Deir Mar Musa Christians in Syria have been gravely affected by the country’s ongoing conflict. Most recently, 12 Greek Orthodox nuns from the Mar Takla convent in the Aramaic-speaking Christian...
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Hope in View
1. Pope Francis washing the feet of an incarcerated Muslim woman Photo by BBC News. In a gesture of humility, Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of twelve young inmates at the Casal Del Marmo...
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Bearing the Light of Christ
On our blog this month, we’re taking a virtual journey to the Middle East. Our blog series highlights how Christians—both foreigners and locals—are interfacing with the religious, political, and...
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The Politics of Taking Religious Offense
Has University of Chicago historian of religion Wendy Doniger given offense, or has Dinanath Batra, president of the Hindu nationalist group Shiksha Bachao Andolan, taken offense for...
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Palestinian Christians Engage in Prayerful Protest
Every Friday for more than two years, come sunshine, rain, or even snow, Father Ibrahim Shomali, a Palestinian Catholic priest, has led a mass as a form of nonviolent resistance against the Israeli...
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Pray, Hope, and Work for a Better Future
Fr. Najeeb Michaeel, a native of Iraq, a Dominican priest, and a Chaldean Catholic, is a leader of one of the oldest surviving religious communities in the world. Christians have lived in Iraq for...
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Running Toward Resurrection
This reflection by Arianne Lehn was originally published in the April 2014 edition of Presbyterians Today. Below is an excerpt of the article, with a link to the full text (as a pdf). Running last...
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We Must Save the Minorities of Iraq
On June 10, former Collegeville Institute resident scholar Fr. Najeeb Michael sent an alarming email to the Collegeville Institute and other organizations from his home in Qaraqosh, 15 miles to the...
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#454264614 / gettyimages.com A popular Christian children’s song says, “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.” Jesus might love...
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Theology’s Return of the Repressed
“The Packers are tooooop dooooog!” The voice came from my six-year-old, raucously celebrating a dramatic victory over the New England Patriots on Sunday, but the words were all mine. I had been...
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Have Charisma, Will Preach (No Church Necessary)
“Farewell Rob Bell,” tweeted prominent evangelical pastor John Piper in 2011 shortly after Bell’s book, Love Wins, hit the market. The book, which Piper and other evangelical leaders shunned for its...
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The Free Speech Right to Offend Others: Is This Right Always Right?
Image by Roger H. Goun “Killing in the name of God is an aberration… Provoking and insulting other people’s faiths is not right.” — Pope Francis “At the end of the day, in a free society people have to...
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Beyond The Seven Storey Mountain
On January 31, 2015, we celebrate the centenary of the birth of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and prolific spiritual writer. In remembrance of his birth, former resident scholar Mary Frances Coady...
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Humans Versus Bacteria
Recent headlines such as Obama to Propose Sharp Increase in Antibiotic Funding and New Antibiotic Stirs Hope Against Resistant Bacteria highlight the importance of thinking theologically about our...
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When It Comes to Lying, The Truth is Often Hard to Face
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain Image by Carmella Fernando, on Flickr Commons. I lied. There it is. Like many insecure adolescents, in my early teen years I...
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History Matters
View image | gettyimages.com The speeches of President Obama and Congressman John Lewis at the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama earlier this year rightly observed that there is work still to be...
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Reaching for Martin Buber
June 13, 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Jewish philosopher Martin Buber’s death. In the following essay, Peter Huff recalls his first encounter with Buber’s work. The location where God has...
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“Forgiveness is hard”
Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons On Father’s Day this year, Constance Slaughter-Harvey—a black lawyer experienced in Mississippi politics—gave the keynote speech at the 51st commemoration of the...
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Climate Change - Evangelicals and the Pope
When climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe met with a room full of evangelical leaders, no one expected Pope Francis to show up.
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