Faith-based groups were active last week in publicly protesting Arizona’s law, evoking compassion, the dignity of the human, the imago Dei in all of us.
The following video was shot and edited by RD associate editor Sarah Posner to accompany her feature, Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe.
Although I have become more cynical about the power of simply listening to music in the decade since I found the CD, I still had high hopes for the festival. As a festival for music, it was beautiful, but as a venue for intercultural understanding, I believe it missed the mark more than it hit it.
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…
Would it further compromise the strength of a weak economy to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest expire? That is exactly what we are hearing from Republicans and…
If by “abomination,” we mean a cultural prohibition—something which a particular culture abhors but another culture enjoys—then the term makes sense. But in common parlance, the term has come to connote something contrary to the order of nature itself, or God’s plan.