Today is Thursday
Jul 02, 2009
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Spirituality Today: The ethics of lying
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Forty crew members from the U.S.S. Pueblo recently gathered in Vermont to compare memories four decades after North Korean patrol boats fired on them. Their three-week mission had turned ugly in 1968, leading to one combat death and 11 months in captivity.
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Spirituality Today: Faith, fatwahs, and Father’s Day
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Is religion a bunch of "pie in the sky" or does it make a difference on earth? According to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, her religious upbringing was "hostile to women…gays…and Jews"—so she explained on FOX News Sunday. As told in her memoir, Infidel, Ali eventually fled Africa for asylum in the Netherlands.
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Spirituality Today: We could all be theologians
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
As a chaplain, I spend most of my day talking with a beautiful mix of people on every subject under the rainbow. When folks share their spiritual opinions with me, I never find myself wondering if they have "the goods" to back it up. Instead, I remember how Solomon and Jesus pointed us toward nature as a source of wisdom: "Go to the ant …," the king said. "Consider the lilies …," the carpenter’s son advised.
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Spirituality Today: What’s old is new—forgiveness
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Twenty years ago, standing in the social sciences building at the University of Maryland, I pushed for an answer: “So what is your dissertation?”
My schoolmate, a doctoral candidate in rehabilitation counseling, grimaced: “My first proposal went down in flames. I wanted to research the role of forgiveness in recovery, but my advisor says that it’s too religious and not researchable!’”
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Spirituality Today: Beyond the White House
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Eight years ago, as U-Haul trucks backed into the driveway at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the Clintons were packing for Chappaqua, N.Y. Around the corner, another van sat ready to unload the Bushes from Crawford, Tex.
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Spirituality Today: Toxic religion and a mother’s love
Saturday, February 28, 2009
It’s a rare day when the FBI puts a "prophet" on its Ten Most Wanted list. Yet when the Bureau placed Warren Jeffs on the list, the announcement triggered a manhunt to nab the polygamist and to convict him as an accomplice to rape. Ever since Carolyn Jessop fled the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), her testimony began to form a crucial part of the case against Jeffs.
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Spirituality Today: No small man
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Shortly after South Carolina quit the Union, one servant found himself piloting a cotton boat. For weeks, the Confederates had forced Robert Smalls to steer his side-wheeler as their gunboat.
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90 minutes in heaven, 23 minutes in hell
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
It’s a rare Sunday that I don’t break open The Washington Post—at least to glance through the comics, the sports page, and “Book World.” For one thing, have always been curious to know what Americans are reading. For months now, the nation has been reading about a Texan who survived a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler.
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He Sold His Soul on eBay(R)
Friday, August 01, 2008
Hemant Mehtah now calls himself “the friendly atheist.” Raised in the Jain religion with eight million fellow believers, this handsome Indian had too many unanswered questions.
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Olmert's woes raise questions of ties to US Jews
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
JERUSALEM (AP) — A New York fundraiser and a Las Vegas gambling czar have become major headaches for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, raising new questions about the relationship between Jewish Americans and the Jewish state.
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Pacifism, militarism, patriotism
Monday, June 30, 2008
Some Americans live with a curious kind of courage. Convinced that violence, retaliation, and war are always wrong, some pacifists put their lives on the line for peace—sometimes in a war zone. Others believe that war is never wrong. Endorsing armed conflict as a necessary evil, some militarists in our culture sensationalize the drama and technology of combat.
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The problem of pain
Friday, May 30, 2008
During a recent broadcast on National Public Radio, listeners were challenged to capture their life story in six words or less. I paused at Hemingway’s example:
FOR SALE: Baby shoes. Never worn.
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Health deception
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
They say the night was hot and humid as my dad began running red lights through the city. Hurrying from their little triplex in Southeast Washington, D.C., my folks were on a beeline to the Old Georgetown Hospital across town
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Love the warrior
Monday, July 30, 2007
Fifteen years ago we laid my father to rest. The U.S. flag, neatly folded by his blue steel coffin, reminded friends and loved ones of his Army service during World War II.
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