Taking a position that does not endear him to the larger American Jewish community is not something unknown to Rabbi Michael Lerner founding editor of Tikkun He s used to provoking the status quo and the heat that can generate He s not used to having his home and family threatened however becau

A thought-provoking post from Theo Hobson at The Guardian For quite a while now liberal Christianity has been strongly defined by the gay issue It is unhelpful to say let s move on as if the issue can be magicked away but there is a need to remember that liberal Christianity is bigger than

Cambridge MA It is sort of springtime in New England some sun rain snow flurries 30 degrees or 60 we are on spring break so as to watch Harvard lose in the NIT last night and it is a week into Lent Like many a reader of this blog I am sure I am still pondering how best to observe thes

Evelyn Waugh once wrote that New Yorkers suffer from a neurosis that they mistake for energy a kind of must-do-this-now-latest-thing drive that simultaneously gives life some meaning and robs it of value In that sense today I am a New Yorker I am in the midst of a major scramble to meet academic

For a small indication of what the people in Japan have been enduring take a gander at this chart of global seismic activity nbsp from the U S Geological Service You can find the nbsp 9 0 quake that rocked the nation on March 11 at 05 46

I recently wrote about my encounter with an Iraqi Christian refugee family in Lebanon during a press trip with the Catholic Near East Welfare Association in Nov 2010 During that trip I also spoke briefly with Issam Bishara the Vice President for the Pontifical Mission for the Middle East about t