I did a podcast interview with Rev Amy Ziettlow last May that was just published in HuffPo In addition to being an ordained minister and a fellow at the Institute for American Values Amy has a background in classical dance and was interested in the connections I make between music and belief The
nbsp Jaffna Srilanka I am near the end of my two weeks in Srilanka and post here my fourth blog from the very northern tip of this island - Ceylon as we used to call it - off the coast of India You can read the first second and third too While the rest of my ten-week travels in South Asia
Christians who remain in Syria 39 s Raqqa province nbsp may now be subject to a quot dhimmi pact quot In classical Islamic law a dhimmi or ldquo protected person rdquo is allowed to live in Muslim lands provided he pays the jizya a residency tax in a state of submission and abides by other
I saw the other night the world premiere of a brilliant and ironic new play Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreitzer at the Marin Theatre Company The play raises for us some of the subtle ironies behind the cartoon character Wonder Woman and some of the vagaries of contemporary feminism In it a pr
Just two days ago they killed nbsp killed 59 pupils at a boarding school in Yobe state nbsp Why can 39 t these terrorists be stopped From Voice of America YOLA NIGERIA nbsp mdash Gunmen from Islamist sect Boko Haram shot dead at least 12 people during a four-hour siege on villages in northeas
In mid-February a group of Chattanooga workers voted in what conservative commentator George Will called ldquo the most important election of 2014 rdquo They were workers in the Volkswagen plant choosing whether or not to form a union Will was not exaggerating about the vote rsquo s importance