I should have realised by now that Twitter is not the best place to vent a sophisticated or half-germinated idea. But I was struck, in the hours after the sickening murder of Father Jacques Hamel, by the contrast between the reaction of so many of my co-religionists and that of Pope Francis. Their tweets were, […]

BY PARKER J. PALMER (@PARKERJPALMER), COLUMNIST When we talk about “otherness,” it’s important to remember that we’re all “other” to someone. My otherness includes the fact that I’m a straight, white, middle-class male who was born in Chicago, raised in the mainline Protestant tradition, grew up in an affluent, all-white Chicago suburb and, at age 77, […]

Aloysious Mowe A woman goes up to Jesus to plead for her daughter’s life. Jesus won’t even look at her: she’s a Canaanite, from a despised people long regarded as an enemy of the Jewish people. When she continues to beg for his help, he says, dismissively, ‘I am here to help only people of […]

Chris Marshall The religious dimension makes modern terrorism such a complex and dangerous reality to deal with. But it must be dealt it. It is vital that internationally co-ordinated efforts are made to counteract it. A coherent strategy is required that balances short-term and long-term remedies. The short-term need is to shut down or contain […]

The participants of a first-of-its-kind Vatican conference have bluntly rejected the Catholic church’s long-held teachings on just war theory, saying they have too often been used to justify violent conflicts and the global church must reconsider Jesus’ teachings on nonviolence… “We propose that the Catholic Church develop and consider shifting to a Just Peace approach […]

The Vatican will be hosting a first of its kind conference this week to reexamine the Catholic Church’s long-held teachings on just war theory, bringing some 80 experts engaged in global nonviolent struggles to Rome with the aim of developing a new moral framework that rejects ethical justifications for war … “After more than 1,500 […]

Plough Quarterly No. 8: Who Is My Neighbour? Spring 2016 This issue explores what it means to be a good neighbour – to a homeless person, an immigrant, a veteran, a criminal, or even to an enemy in a time of war. http://www.plough.com/en/subscriptions/quarterly/2016/spring-2016-issue-8?source=pw030316

Irina Rai Is online shaming just a new version of something that humans have always done, or is it substantially different, now that the shaming is taking place on the Internet? And, either way, is it the right thing to do? Online shaming has been a hot topic over the last year. An entire book […]

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Pocket-Sized Gods? Vinoth Ramachandaran The Malaysian Church, in recent decades, was engaged in a prolonged legal battle with their Islamist-influenced government which prohibited non-Muslims from using the word Allah to refer to the supreme God and creator. Church leaders received directives stating that several words of Arabic origin, including Allah, Nabi (prophet) and Al Kitab (Bible) […]

Dr Rowan Williams At first sight, it seems hard to imagine a more unlikely pairing than the one announced in this lecture’s title. George Orwell had a profound dislike of Roman Catholic writers (though – as we shall see later – he accorded a grudging respect to Evelyn Waugh as a literary craftsman), and, had […]

Samuel Tadros The train of destruction that is the Islamic State – ISIS, as people know it – has taken Middle East Christians in Syria and Iraq by storm. In Lebanon, the ruling formula that the country has adopted for so many years is crumbling, strained by the growing Sunni/Shiite war raging in neighbouring Syria, […]