The Genius of Judaism , by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Steven B. Kennedy (Random House, 2017) From the publishers blurb: “Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage—one of the great moral voices of our time. Now Europe’s foremost…
Last week we introduced Open Theology , an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal of research articles from established and emerging scholars in the field of religion. The journal has just published its “Bible Translation” topical…
Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research articles of established and emerging scholars in the field of religion, relevant from academic and practical points of view addressing religion in its various forms…
The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that…
Shantideva says a lot about our mindset. The mindset of friend and foe. Like and dislike. For me and against me. And how that very mechanism of buying so tightly into this notion of the good people and the bad people—the ones that I like and the ones I don’t…
Friend Gerry Yokota an American living in Japan, a member of Osaka Monthly Meeting, Japan Yearly Meeting. Born (Ohio) and raised (Kentucky) Southern Baptist, began attending Friends Meeting in Princeton, NJ, in the early nineties and then became a member of
People in the traditions of Christianity and Islam have partial experiences of both violent and peaceful conducting of conflict. Neither is perfect. Neither community is clean or clear from bad motives, fringe renegades and duplicity. Yet both communities have internal resources…
Two Christian theologians discuss, given God’s plan of salvation from the Christian tradition, whether aliens on another planet will need their own separate savior or whether Christ will be the savior for the whole universe. One theologian argues that aliens would need a savior…
Kate Bowler is an assistant professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School and the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (2013). The following are excerpts from her 2/14/2016 article in The New York…
Christopher Bagley’s Islam Today: A Muslim Quaker’s View is very helpful addition to the Quaker meeting toolbox. The author speaks as both a Quaker and a Muslim, giving us his experience and understanding of reality from two viewpoints of tradition. Can there be a…