King Charles III: Defender of Faith?
Britain’s King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, leave after a Service of Prayer and Reflection for the life of Queen Elizabeth II, at Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, […]
Food Security and God’s Community: A Homily on the Book of Ruth
Food Insecurity and God’s Community: A Sermon on The Book of Ruth Preached on the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, 31 October, All Saints, King City, Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Readings […]
New Findings On The Relevance Of Clergy Are Not Inspiring
A new poll suggesting the waning influence of clergy doesn’t really surprise me. Perhaps the only thing that is at all newsworthy is that the poll describes religions opinions in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Even Genghis Khan Didn’t Do This”: Mosul Empties Of Christians
Several Christian news sites are reporting that jihadists in ISIS-controlled Iraq are marking the homes of Christians with a graffiti tag, the Arabic sign “nun”, the first letter of the […]
The Media and Muslim Scares: A UK Perspective
Today’s online Guardian from the UK features a piece by Nesrine Malik about how the British media routinely recycles certain stories about Muslims which, she argues, “create a […]
This Just In From Tehran
So the brother of Iran’s president walks into a Jewish hospital. No, it’s not the start of a joke. Call this story from Teheran political gesture or call it […]
A Shrine For Illegal Immigrants
In one of my classes this fall, we’ve been reading Thomas Tweed’s book Our Lady Of The Exile, a study of the shrine to the Virgin in Miami, Florida, that has […]