by Kudos to American Muslim Leaders! Terrific story in New York Times.
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Many commentators have considered this question, especially given the Pope’s decision regarding the convent at Auschwitz. As a non-Catholic, I am reluctant to take a position on this question but I recommend this intriguing column by the author of “The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace.”
Read the full postIn Park Slope, where I live, all of us have family or friends who either died on 9/11 or had close calls. My wife had one of those close calls. She was a law enforcement lawyer who stayed in an adjacent building until the first tower collapsed. I lost touch with her at that moment [...]
Read the full postGreat piece by Sam Tanenhaus, “God and Politics, Together Again.” Best I’ve seen on why President Obama’s best efforts to promote unity have largely failed and why he does not connect with large segments of white Christian America. As someone sympathetic to the President, I hope he reads it — and gets it.
Read the full postMayor Bloomberg’s speech tonight may go down in history as one of the great American speeches that people are reading a hundred years from now. Time’s Mark Halpern describes it as “best defense, speech of a lifetime.”
Read the full postI want to follow up on Perry’s post and explain why the debate over the Islamic Center at Ground Zero has changed my view of the Convent at Auschwitz. I use prejudice rather than offense as the starting point. It would be bigoted to oppose a Convent because it’s Christian or a Mosque because it’s [...]
Read the full postRav Kook, a late nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish thinker, is one of the few recent Jewish thinkers to have a significant influence on Jewish religious perspectives from right to left. Although he is a well-known name only in the Orthodox Jewish world — or in Israel where his son is an icon of [...]
Read the full postVideo of beautiful religious teaching from a secular source — Mayor Bloomberg on the Islamic Center near Ground Zero. Also features Catholic Priest who was a first responder, as well as Rabbi and Imam. h/t to one of my students.
Read the full postApologies that I am restricting myself to cultural and not scholarly posts for the moment. Between a hard and fast casebook deadline, conference presentations (in the summer?), and article deadlines, I’ve never been busier. So, on the cultural front, thought folks might find this accurate headline from the Yeshiva World News of interest: Christian President [...]
Read the full postCheck out this commentary, “Wish You Weren’t Here,” from the July 7, 2010 Daily Show.
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