Mom and Dad bought it all: Fife’s lies, delusions and conspiracies. They left the Catholic Church and began governing our ...
The cry for peace and unity at the synod’s ecumenical vigil struck me as particularly moving at a time of war that has ...
The essence of prayer is not about expecting specific outcomes ... we find ourselves entrenched in war with Gaza and, effectively, Lebanon. We have ceded control over sections of our own borders ...
When I met Retzlaff on campus a couple of days later, I told him about the earnest Mormon’s concern over his compliance with ...
A colleague recently reminded me that during the Vietnam War, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel told a journalist that he could not pray because whenever he opened a prayer book, he saw images of ...
This Yom Kippur is like no other. The pogrom on October 7, 2023, the over 100 hostages still enduring unimaginable suffering ...
Mark Twain wrote a short story called "The War Prayer" in 1905. Harper's Bazaar Magazine rejected the piece, as did Twain's own publisher. Even his family and friends feared it was 'sacrilegious ...
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once told a reporter at a protest against the Vietnam War that he was there because he couldn’t pray: “Whenever I open the prayer book, I see before me images of ...
Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear ...
Israel is once again caught in a war of narratives ... Was the city right to limit the traditional form of Orthodox prayer due to the public nature of the space? Were the protesters wrong in ...
After a tumultuous four years marked by violent protests and drug decriminalization, Portland is poised for big changes.
Democratic VP nominee joined by Barack Obama at Wisconsin campaign event. Kamala Harris promotes small business loans ...