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To get the gist of this particular rite, we have to look at the story of Hajar.

Religious rebellion against the secular state isn’t actually about religion…

There is sometimes an unnecessary rift between leading ideas and leading people politically.

Unable to get an abortion during a tour of duty in Iraq, a soldier is left with no option but to do it herself—a humiliating but not uncommon dilemma. Women in the military are forced to obtain a leave to get the care they need; but if they’re honest about why, they put their military career in jeopardy. If they’re not, they put their military career in jeopardy.

…or How Not to Choose One

The counter-protestors were a motley bunch. A father with a son deployed to Afghanistan; some white American teens upset at the burning of the Qur’an nearby; and two twenty-something girls—who think it’s “just terrible” to burn an American flag which has also set…

The department of physics in the University of Oxford is a hodgepodge of buildings, old and new. In a warren of rooms, its scientists pursue interests from quantum computing to theoretical cosmology. The diversity says much. As a tree of knowledge, modern physics has branches that shoot off in…

For the historically minded among us, the reasons for not bringing our spiritual authority into political campaigns are blood red.

Buying locally reminds us that purchasing is a mythical act that cements us to community in some magical way. But what if the very morality of a “local” act is being marketed in its own right? Is it just as moral to help a Palestinian cultural center build community as it is to buy Cisco products whose ads promise the same?

It was pouring rain, cold rain, on an early March morning, as I headed to Brooklyn Label, a café near my apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I was meeting Vito Aiuto, pastor of Resurrection Presbyterian Church in Williamsburg, a plant of Redeemer Presbyterian, one of the largest and most…