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…
The World After Truth … “You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” —John 8:32 … “’What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.” —Francis Bacon … “The ideal subject of totalitarian…
“We, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Philippines, hereby express our deep concern on the spate of killings and the intent to reimpose death penalty in our country which we vehemently oppose.”
Sin: The Early History of an Idea , by Paula Fredriksen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012) … The dominant current view of sin is that it changes throughout history to fit the culture, and that sin is rightly understood as a result of error…
The poet Jalaluddin Rumi writes of night travelers who search the darkness instead of running from it, a companionship of people willing to know their own fear. (91) Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart … What we are learning … Many modern people have a…
During August of 2016 in a blog post entitled “Neighbor,” we revisited Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan from Luke 10:25-37, in order to explore a deeper message from the Master which sometimes gets overlooked. Almost always our focus is on the…
I had a dream a few days ago, one of those rare wholly unambiguous dreams. It was a flying dream, but that’s not the relevant feature, just a plot device. I was returning home to an upper floor of a six-story apartment building. Flying over the roof, I saw that the…
Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifetime Activist , by David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday. Foreword by John Dear; Introduction by George Lakey; Afterward by Ken Butigan. (PM Press, Oakland CA, 2014. 243 pages. $20, paperback) Reviewer Rich Van Dellan is a…
Skandha mara 1 is how we react when the rug is pulled out from under us…. We don’t know what’s going to happen next or even where we are. Then we re-create ourselves. We return to the…
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…
