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“God does not place upon a soul more than it can bear.”

Remember the best of what you did while fasting and try to keep that.

At the root of our desire for retribution is the wish that those who have wronged us feel the full weight of what they have done, suffering remorse proportionate in severity to the gravity of their crime. In short, we hunger for their redemption. And so, when the retributive impulse is finally satisfied, it naturally resolves itself into forgiveness. The darkness is lifted, because the evil—the dissociation from the good that inspired the crime—has been destroyed.

National Public Radio may soon be under real assault from Republican lawmakers, if Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes’ comments about “liberal Nazis” are any indication. A congressman from Colorado Springs, Doug Lamborn is leading the charge.

The premise that Religious Studies was a weak blend of esotericism and elitism prior to recent years—but is reviving through putting all that in the past—is wrong on factual grounds. More perniciously, if this analysis informs institutional strategies in an era of downsizing, it could be downright dangerous for the future of the discipline.

The President-Elect’s names, all three of them, reveal a complexity of religious engagement that might move us beyond a tribal sense of religion.

The Bishop is touring the United States and Europe, sponsored by the Episcopal LGBT group Integrity USA (among other organizations) to raise awareness about the draconian law being considered by the Ugandan parliament, which would make homosexuality illegal; in some cases punishable by death. Having already faced the rejection of his church and loss of his pension for standing up for the equality and spiritual dignity of LGBT people, Senyonjo could face imprisonment for his continued advocacy under a section of the law meant to prevent the “promotion” of homosexuality.

There are plenty of reasons for concern over Obama’s appointment of Rahm Emanuel, but guilt by association is a downward spiral.

Surrounded by those she had been taught to “despise,” she began to question these prejudices that had been instilled through the institutional Church and seek out the human rights model laid out in the Gospel….

Tahrir Square clearly proved both bin Laden and his lieutenant al-Zawahiri wrong.