Search

Over fifty years ago Bellah rocked the field of religious studies with a pioneering study on Japanese religion. When he died suddenly this past week he was working on a book that was set to land him as a pioneer yet again.

Can a This-Worldly and an Other-Worldly faith be friends?

Giving free rein to their follicles, a Conservative group of IDF soldiers defies powerful, state-sanctioned Orthodox Rabbinate.

Since the Rachel Held Evans post that launched a thousand responses everyone is talking about “millennials” leaving the church, but these conversations always seem to be missing an important question: Instead of asking why some people leave, can we ask why some stay?

Sin is not the only story. Our communities and our churches have the capacity to be compassionate, radically inclusive, and justice-driven.

Quite a bit, as it turns out. Whether as public figures or educators, academics can, for example, help refute the work of high profile Islamophobes whose expertise lies outside of Islam.

Did the president’s rhetoric at the recent press conference in Turkey signal a shift toward a new national identity, or merely a shift in emphasis?

Is there a connection between fewer identifying as “Christian” and “junk religion”? If the religious right is losing power why are Democrats so intent on “reaching out” to them?

A new study appears to beg the question: what does it even mean to be Jewish?

Secular holidays, actually constituting a quasi-sacred calendar, span the entire year: From New Year’s Day, the King Holiday, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, and now, at long last, Thanksgiving Day.