Inter-religion Talk Time
A Book Review of Shared Stories, Rival Tellings: Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims by Robert Gregg (2016)
Robert Gregg’s book , Shared Stories, Rival…
Robert Gregg’s book , Shared Stories, Rival…
The story told here is the incremental recognition, expansion, and protection of religious freedom in the U.S. Asma T. Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for…
Gabriel Reynolds, The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary (2018) will be seen as a major contribution to global interfaith dialogue…
D. Bidwell, When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People (2018) is unexpected and valuable for counselors, and…
From a monotheistic culture without direct revelation, Laozi was trying to make sense of what was going on in his time in China, when the country was divided and fighting one another. Is it the will of heaven, or it is just the corruption of humankind?
His ideas are very interesting when compared with those of a monotheistic culture which does describe direct revelations: law given by the God without a name; spiritual communities developed by the law of the Spirit; and a new commandment to love one another according to the love of Christ.
Which language is God’s language for communicating with us? What is the lingua humana? Was Hebrew the language God spoke for accomplishing creation? Was Latin the language God used to nurture the church institution? Is English the language God speaks now? Is the…
“Jesus’ own vision of his ministry was more universal than you say. This is one of our key stories which illustrate the movement within Jesus during his lifetime enabling him to see his mission as one including us. This woman…is indeed for us the foremother of the mission which includes us as Gentiles. Just as she won healing and wholeness for her daughter, so too she won it for us, her daughters and sons today.”
Mohsid Hamid’s Exit West is a novel exploring the experience of refugees in this world, with a little magic in the mechanism of magic doors that permit refugees to engage with the real experiences of refugees in other countries and situations. The theme is…
Kristin Loken attends Shepherdstown Monthly Meeting in West Virginia. From her little cottage beside the Potomac River in West Virginia, Kristin writes and works locally on problems she sees as critical to a just and sustainable world. … A few years ago, someone asked…
The world is once again being fragmented by fearful, angry politics and warfare, and religion is often in the mix in dangerous and destructive ways. Even so, we are seeing a resurgence of people reaching out with hands and hearts across the supposed boundaries of their…