No, Mr. President, There Isn’t A Religious Freedom Problem In The Military
US Army chaplain visits a simulated casualty during a training exercise. My Twitter feed lit up a bit recently when this story aired on CNN, regarding comments by US […]
More Religions To Be Recognized In US Military
This piece in the Religion News Service received some modest attention among the US national security (NatSec) people I follow on Twitter. The US Department of Defence has “announced a […]
Chariots of the Hepta-Gods: Thoughts on Arrival, Aliens, and Theology
(Warning: some spoilers follow). In so much as I followed this year’s Academy Awards, I was curious about the fate of the one contending film I have seen so far, […]
Trump And The Christians
Christian pastors praying with Trump, 21 Sept, 2016 It’s time for Christians to get off the Trump Train. It is certainly time now, and it was time a long while […]
Kenneth A. Briggs on the Vanishing Bible
An article in today’s Religion News Service has me wanting to read Kenneth A. Briggs’ new book on the diminishing place of the bible in North American Christianity, The Invisible […]
William Imboden on Trump, Christians and the 1930s
There is something of a media parlour game going on at present. As Donald Trump’s authoritarian leanings become more and more apparent, it’s tempting to ask if our American friends […]
For Jews of Scottish Ancestry, An Official (And Kosher) Tartan
Today in Canada, and elsewhere in the world for all I know, we are observing National Tartan Day. It seems a fitting occasion to pass on this story, via US […]
Friday Theology: Is It Heretical To Wonder ‘What Would Jesus Pack?’
Today’s Friday theology takes the form of two questions. 1) Is the question “What would Jesus pack?” heretical? Show your work, and be sure to reference Matthew 5 (those pesky Beatitutdes!). […]
Escape From Waithood: One View Of Terrorism And Its Causes
A street scene in “Waithood“ If there has been a theme in some of my recent posts, it`s about the importance of religion as a motive for human […]
What`s Religious? What`s Political? Religious Literacy And Current Events
There has been some shop in my office this week about an interview in the Ottawa Citizen with Andrew Bennett, Canada`s Ambassador for Religious Freedom. In the interview, Bennett argues […]