October 19, 2011
- The Jewish Week
Jewish Week: Examining America's religious landscape
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey of the American
Religious Landscape is more than three years old and, because of its
size and cost, won't be updated for another two years, but it remains an
important reference source and worth taking a look at.
October 11, 2011
- The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: The cult of anti-Mormonism
Here's some advice for Republican candidates appearing at Tuesday's
presidential debate at Dartmouth College.
October 01, 2011
- First Things
First Things: Whither marriage?
Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral or cultural differences between homosexual couples and heterosexual couples, they presume, and therefore limiting marriage to heterosexual couples amounts to discrimination.
September 26, 2011
- The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Opinion: Millennial Generation challenges religion in America
While most religions believe their doctrines and practices to be eternal verities, all denominations, like other institutions, must continually enlist and renew the commitment of each new generation if they are to survive and carry on their work.
September 21, 2011
- The Huffington Post
Huffington Post: Surveying U.S. and French Muslims
The results of two interesting surveys were released recently: one by the Pew Research Center on U.S. Muslims' lives and attitudes and one by IFOP (the leading French market research and opinion poll institute) on French Muslims and the evolution of their socio-religious attitudes over the past two decades.
September 19, 2011
- Council on Foreign Relations
CFR: Muslims in the United States
Since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror abroad and domestic terror incidents involving U.S. and immigrant Muslims have focused attention on Islam in the United States.
September 16, 2011
- The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Converts vs. 'Cradle Catholics'
Do converts to the faith make better evangelists than "cradle Catholics"? Pope Benedict XVI seems to think so.