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By tracking the way Jesus Christ has been rendered through the American racial imagination—actually lining up all the evidence, from Puritan witch trial transcripts through stained glass windows through contemporary movies—Paul and Ed give us a new place to start a national discussion about who owns the image of God. That discussion has been going on, as The Color of Christ demonstrates, in communities of color since the early nineteenth century, if not before.

Men have to wear the ihram. Women can wear whatever they want. Really.

As wrangling continues over the rights of immigrants the death of a Benedictine nun in a car crash becomes a flash point—even though her community has come forward to urge mercy for the illegal immigrant driving the car that killed her.

A world of beauty and its benefit surrounds us.

Evangelicals and fundamentalist Hindus come together in their denunciation of yoga.

Shocking revelation—polygamists are as boring as the rest of us!

Sasha Polakow-Suransky reported last month in The Guardian that he had found evidence that Israel planned to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa in 1975, prompting the Israeli government to issue an official denial. Polakow-Suransky’s new book, “The Unspoken Alliance” is a history of Israel’s military alliance with apartheid South Africa.

Living by the golden rule.

Two women drinking coffee together in a Buenos Aires café during the dictatorship (1973-1983) could have been arrested merely for being together. Today they can marry. What a difference a few decades can make. Eva Peron was right in her address to her people from the balcony, as crooned…

It occurs to me that experience may not be the only teacher.