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June 27, 2008: Clergy and Same-Sex Marriage
Clergy are being pressured to perform same-sex weddings and to perform them inside their houses of worship. This is generating new debates because many religious traditions explicitly define marriage as between a man and a woman.
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June 13, 2008: Religion’s Role in Kenya
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly this week highlights the growing ties between church communities in western Kenya and Indiana.
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June 6, 2008: Faith and Works in American Politics
When Hillary Clinton, a Methodist, discusses her faith, she almost always quotes her favorite passage from the Book of James: "faith without works is dead."
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Earlier this month, in preparation for the riding season, several thousand bikers descended on Paterson, New Jersey to have their bikes blessed by a Catholic priest who is also a biker and who ministers to all those who ride.
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March 14, 2008: Easter East And West
For Western Christians, Sunday (March 16) is Palm Sunday, which begins Holy Week, leading up to Easter (March 23). But Eastern Orthodox Christians have just begun observing their time of Lent. Because of differing church calendars, Western and Eastern Christians usually celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on different dates.
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February 8, 2008: Tallit Making
A synagogue with a class in which boys and girls preparing for their coming of age ceremonies, bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs, make their own tallit.
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November 9, 2007: Janet Cooper Nelson
Read more of Lucky Severson's interview with the Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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September 28, 2007: Commentary: Saffron Revolution
Read analysis and commentary on the Buddhist protests in Burma by Patrick Pranke and Donald Mitchell.
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September 21, 2007: The Soul of a Doctor
Read Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly’s web-only interview with Vincent Lam, a Canadian doctor and writer whose acclaimed first book, BLOODLETTING & MIRACULOUS CURES (Weinstein Books, 2007), was awarded the 2006 Giller Prize for fiction.
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September 21, 2007: AMISH GRACE: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
Read an excerpt from AMISH GRACE: HOW FORGIVENESS TRANSCENDED TRAGEDY by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher.
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