Religion in Today's
World
Theological and Ethical Reflections on Current
Events
Note: * designates articles
published and currently only available in the book
Views from a Hermitage:
Reflections on Religion in Today’s World
(Lexington Books division of
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008)
All underlined titles are, or
soon will be, linked to and available on this website.
Introduction
to this series
Year-Month-Day &
Subject
08-05-20
The Shadow Side of God
08-03-22 Witnesses to the Resurrection
08-03-02 The Pew Forum Report on Religion
07-12-25 The Annapolis Initiative*
07-12-21 The Incarnation Revisited*
07-12-10 The Creeds as Symbols of Faith*
07-12-08 Universal Health Care: A Basic Human Right?*
07-11-29 In Search of a Logical Faith*
07-11-21 The Church and Change*
07-10-16 The U.S., Iran, and CUFI
07-09-03 Mother Teresa’s Doubts
07-08-23 The Secret of Sanctity*
07-08-12 Time, Memory, and Meaning*
07-08-08 The Earth and Humanity*
07-08-03 Gnostics and Gnosticism*
07-07-28 Environmental Escapism*
07-07-17 Pope Benedict and the
True Church*
07-07-14 Facing the Future*
07-05-25 Atheism on the Rebound?*
07-05-10 Latin American Abortion Politics
07-04-29 Tragedy at Virginia Tech
07-04-03 Puzzling Parallels: Buddhism and
Christianity*
07-03-30 Literalism & Symbolism
07-03-04 The Tomb of Jesus and the Body of Christ*
07-02-17 Population and Pollution*
07-01-23 The Polish Compromise
07-01-16 Capital Punishment*
07-01-12 Questions Regarding the Troop "Surge" in Iraq
07-01-02The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein
06-12-09The Knowledge of Christ*
06-12-03The End of Time*
06-11-08Discrimination: Michigan's Proposition 06-2
06-11-06Religion, Sex and Politics
06-10-20Pascal’s “Wager” Revisited*
06-10-12Christians and Global
Warming*
06-09-26 Inventing Christ*
06-09-26Regensburg: Did the
Pope Misspeak?*
06-09-12Make Believe: Faith According to C.S.
Lewis*
06-09-09Hero or Hypocrite? Rousseau’s
Vicar of Savoy*
06-09-06 Embryonic Stem Cell Research
06-08-26Slippery Slopes:
Abortion and Stem Cell Research*
06-08-19Essential Christianity*
06-08-18The Kerygma according to Barnabas
06-08-11Martyrdom or Suicide?
06-08-02 Symbolism
vs. Literalism
06-07-29 Three Questions regarding Stem Cell Research
06-07-28 World War III?*
06-07-23 The Trinity for
Monotheists*
06-07-21 Apocalypse Now?*
06-06-13 Remembering the Alamo
06-04-10 The Gospel of Judas*
06-04-01 Can Islam Change?*
06-03-25 The Trial of Abdul Rahman
06-03-15 Iraq: Vietnam in Retrospect?
06-02-28 The Sunni vs. Shiite Division*
06-02-24 The Original Mistake*
06-02-07 Muslim Outrage*
06-02-04 Oneness or a Theory of
Everything*
06-01-29 Did Jesus Have Faith?*
06-01-25 Ecclesiastical Obesity
06-01-24 Albert Schweitzer’s
Radical Christianity*
06-01-21 Holy Indifference*
06-01-14 Instinct and Reason*
06-01-05 Catholic Disbelief *
06-01-03 The Supreme Court and Judge Samuel Alito
05-12-21 The Relatively Poor and Absolute Poverty*
05-12-18 Cooked Books?*
05-12-13 Confession*
05-12-12 The Occupation of Iraq
05-11-06 Religion and Society*
05-11-01 Religious Perversion
05-10-31 All Souls*
05-10-02 Dogma*
05-09-15 Reflections on Hurricane Katrina*
05-07-11 Intelligent Design*
05-07-02 Patriotism and Religion
05-06-11 The Quest for Meaning*
05-06-04 Is the Roman Church Catholic?
05-05-03 Spiritual Blindness*
05-04-05 Divisions*
05-04-04 Catholicism or Papalism?*
05-04-02 Pope John Paul II*
05-03-21 Darfur*
05-03-05 Blindness*
05-03-02 Christian Unity*
04-11-15 Is There a God Gene?*
04-11-04 The Interpretation of Scripture*
04-11-01 Three Facts and a Corollary
04-10-31 Voting as a Moral Obligation
04-10-06 The Global Test*
04-09-26 Iraq's Christians*
04-06-14 Abu Graib and Moral Bankruptcy*
04-03-22 The Passion of the Christ
04-02-23 What Does It Mean To Be Christian?*
04-01-05 The Tsunami and "Acts of God"
03-12-30 The Incarnation*
03-12-28 World Peace: The Papal Prescription*
03-12-05 More on Science and Religion
03-11-26 Truth or Consequences
03-11-12 The Occupation of Iraq
03-09-08 Public Morality and the 10 Commandments*
03-07-30 AIDS and Genocide*
03-07-01 Religion and Suicide
03-05-27 The Environment as a Moral Imperative*
03-05-13 Shabbat Shalom*
03-02-12 Darwin and the Demotion of Humanity*
03-01-23 War in Iraq: Immoral and/or Unwise?
03-01-14 Religion vs. Science*
02-12-23 Preventive War*
02-12-22 America’s “Superiority Complex”*
02-12-21 Systemic Failure*
02-12-15 On Church and State*
02-11-07 James, the Brother of Jesus*
02-11-07 The Religious Roots of Conflict in the Middle East*
02-10-22 Christians in the Middle East*
02-10-08 The US and the UN*
02-07-30 AIDS and Genocide*
02-09-11 America a Year Later
02-07-02 The USA Under God*
02-08-29 The Five Loves*
02-07-16 The Church and Sexual Abuse
02-06-15 The Dallas Decision
02-05-24 Sexual Evolution*
02-04-04 The Holy Land*
02-04-02 Tradition and Change*
02-03-27 Atonement*
02-03-26 Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church*
02-03-14 Seeing*
02-03-11 Solitude*
02-03-01 Clerical Celibacy*
02-02-12 Astrotheology*
02-02-11 Congratulations! Reflections on the Beatitudes
01-12-27 New Year: New Era?*
01-12-07 Has Christianity Made Any Difference? Reflections on the Millennium*
01-11-26 The Sectarian Dilemma
01-11-21 Prayer*
01-11-20 Survival and the Soul
01-10-13 Jihads and Crusades
01-10-14 Islam*
01-10-15 Religious Extremism*
01-09-15 September 11 Response
01-09-12 September 11*
01-09-04 The Devil You Say?*
01-09-01 On Christians and Jews
01-08-15 Coping with Tragedy*
01-07-28 The Stemcell Dilemma: A Broader Perspective
01-06-02 The Trinity for Monotheists*
01-05-27 The Ascension of Christ
01-05-02 The Death Penalty*
01-03-21 Ends and Means*
01-03-14 Buddha Bashing: A Lesson in Intolerance
01-02-24 Mature Faith*
01-02-17 Biblical Perspectives
01-02-14 Materialism: Dialectical or Otherwise
01-02-05 Three Views on Abortion
01-02-01 Overcoming Religious Stagnation
01-01-12 Women in the Church*
00-12-01 A Gift from the East*
00-09-03 Hypocrisy*
00-08-02 Commitment*
00-08-01 Creationism vs. Evolution*
00-07-27 Spirituality and Therapeutic Religion*
00-07-21 Religion and Violence
00-07-20 Evolution and the Problem of Evil*
00-06-30 Arguments for an Afterlife*
00-06-27 God and/or the Big Bang?*
00-05-21 Faith and Doubt*
00-05-05 Faith and Belief*
00-04-01 On Science and Religion
00-03-15 What is "Religion"?*
99-07-24 Kosovo
and a New Moral Order*