Why We Need Religion
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entitled “The Antithesis to the Search for God.” It dealt with racism as an obstacle on the path to faith. I’ve been ...
Are Believers Dolts?
For years, I’ve done almost all my reading on Kindle, the Amazon e-reader. I prefer it to the printed page. With Kindle, I can carry around my library even when ...
The Doubting Thomas in All of Us
From a Judeo-Christian perspective, you can’t ignore the Bible if you write about God and religion. For believers, after all, the Bible is the Word of God in the words ...
The Antithesis to the Search for God
A little-noticed national news item recently reported the death of 96-year-old Judge Damon J. Keith. One of the nation’s longest-serving federal judges, he was a tireless champion of civil rights ...
A Generosity Hormone?
As a young man, I traveled to Europe on a ship. Since a friend and I were seminary students, talk at the table where about a dozen of us second-class ...
Is My Faith Merely a Cultural Expression?
As American priests in Bolivia in the 1970s, my colleagues and I tried to overcome the cultural differences between the Aymara people with whom we worked and the cultural baggage ...