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Religion in Today's World

Theological and Ethical Reflections

Note: Most of the titles below are currently viewable, in their original form, on this website. However * designates copyrighted © articles also published in print and currently available (although in an edited and sometimes altered form) in the book: Views from a Hermitage: Reflections on Religion in Today’s World (Lexington Books division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008). These latter may not copied or quoted in their entirety without permission of the publisher.

Introduction to this series

Year-Month-Day & Subject

10-07-31 Anne Rice, Christ, & Christianity

10-07-29 Slander & Free Speech

10-07-25 Memory & Eternal Life

10-07-17 Women Priests?

10-07-09 Climate Change & Future of Humanity

10-06-16 The Pope’s Bedevilment

10-06-04 Decision

10-05-15 Disgust, Dismay, & Genuine Reform

10-05-02 What the Pope Should Do

10-04-20 The Church & Sexuality

10-03-27 Cain’s Curse

10-03-17 Clerical Celibacy?

10-03-10 Boycott Israel?

10-01-28 Obama, Socialism, & Christianity

10-01-22 Religion and World Peace

10-01-20 Haiti and a Greater Good?

10-01-16 Haiti and the Limits to Growth

10-01-09 Adaptation and Climate Change

09-03-29 The Church and Witchcraft

09-03-18 Living Old

09-03-14 Evolution in Rome

09-02-22 Facing Facts

09-02-04 Bishop Williamson and the Pope

08-10-29 The Perfect vs. the Possible

08-10-23 Obama. McCain, and Freedom of Choice

08-10-21 The Faith and Finance

08-10-13 The Limits of Power

08-09-22 Greed and Capitalism

08-08-22 The Pope and the Environment

08-06-12 Is Christ God?

08-05-20 The Shadow Side of God

08-05-16 Food and Oil

08-05-08 Voting Dilemmas

08-03-22 Witnesses to the Resurrection

08-03-20 Race and Religion

08-03-10 Miracles

08-03-02 The Pew Forum Report on Religion

08-02-23 Presidential Beliefs

07-12-25 The Annapolis Initiative*

07-12-21 The Incarnation Revisited*

07-12-10 The Creeds as Symbols of Faith*

07-11-21 The Church and Change*

07-10-16 The U.S., Iran, and CUFI

07-09-29 In Search of a Logical Faith*

07-09-23 Ultima Pangea

07-09-03 Mother Teresa’s Doubts

07-08-25 Universal Health Care: A Basic Human Right?*

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?*

07-05-13 Faith Stages

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*

07-02-28 Global Warming and Population Growth

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

07-01-02—The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein

06-12-11—Bethlehem and Beyond

06-12-09—The Knowledge of Christ*

06-12-03—The End of Time*

06-11-08—Discrimination: Michigan's Proposition 06-2

06-11-06—Religion, Sex and Politics

06-10-29—God's Substitutes

06-10-28 Terrorism

06-10-20—Pascal’s “Wager” Revisited*

06-10-12—Christians and Global Warming*

06-10-10—Amish Forgiveness

06-09-26 Inventing Christ*

06-09-26—Regensburg: Did the Pope Misspeak?*

06-09-12—Make Believe: Faith According to C.S. Lewis*

06-09-11 Five Years After*

06-09-09—Hero or Hypocrite? Rousseau’s Vicar of Savoy*

06-09-06 Embryonic Stem Cell Research

06-08-26—Slippery Slopes: Abortion and Stem Cell Research*

06-08-19—Essential Christianity*

06-08-18—The Kerygma according to Barnabas

06-08-02 —Symbolism vs. Literalism

06-07-31 —War Crimes

06-07-30 —The End of Israel

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?*

06-07-18 —Retaliation

06-06-13 —Remembering the Alamo

06-05-29 —Immigrants

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*

06-02-10 —Conquest

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

05-12-25 —Crib vs. Cross

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

05-12-03 —Gay Priests

05-11-06 —Religion and Society*

05-11-01 —Religious Perversion

05-10-31 —All Souls*

05-10-02 —Dogma*

05-09-17 —Lifeline

05-09-15 —Reflections on Hurricane Katrina*

05-08-20 —Responsibility

05-08-19 —This I Believe

05-08-18 —Gaza

05-08-14 —Parables

05-07-11 —Intelligent Design*

05-07-02 —Patriotism and Religion

05-06-20 —Disgraced

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*

05-03-31 —The Life Cult

05-03-27 —Easter 2005

05-03-25 —The Schiavo Case

05-03-21 —Darfur*

05-03-05 —Blindness*

05-03-02 Christian Unity*

04-11-20 —Wars and Fears

04-11-15 —Is There a God Gene?*

04-11-12 —Religion & Nature

04-11-04 —The Interpretation of Scripture*

04-11-03 —Moral Values

04-11-01 —Three Facts and a Corollary

04-10-31 —Voting as a Moral Obligation

04-10-30 —First Things First

04-10-06 — The Global Test*

04-09-26 — Iraq's Christians*

04-06-14 — Abu Graib and Moral Bankruptcy*

04-03-28 The Jay Report

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*

03-12-18 Was Jesus Married?

03-12-05 More on Science and Religion

03-12-03 — The City of God

03-11-26 — Truth or Consequences

03-11-12 — The Occupation of Iraq

03-10-07 — The Turkish Fleet

03-09-08 — Public Morality and the 10 Commandments*

03-08-12 — Gay Marriage?

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*

03-04-17 — The Rule of Law

03-03-18 — Invasion

03-03-17 — The USA as Messiah

03-02-12 — Darwin and the Demotion of Humanity*

03-01-29 — Just War in Iraq?

03-01-27 — Pacifism

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*

02-11-11— The Religious Roots of Conflict in the Middle East*

02-11-07 — James, the Brother of Jesus*

02-10-22 — Christians in the Middle East*

02-10-08 — The US and the UN*

02-08-18 — First Strike?

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*

02-04-01 — Beliefs

02-03-27 — Atonement*

02-03-26 — Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church*

02-03-21 — Repairs

02-03-14 — Seeing*

02-03-11 — Solitude*

02-03-01 — Clerical Celibacy*

02-02-13 — Lent 101

02-02-12 — Astrotheology*

02-02-11 — Congratulations! Reflections on the Beatitudes

02-01-19 — Judgment

01-12-27 — New Year: New Era?*

01-12-07 — Has Christianity Made Any Difference?*

01-11-29 — Advent 2001

01-11-26 — The Sectarian Dilemma

01-11-21 — Prayer*

01-11-20 — Survival and the Soul

01-10-29 — Just War?

01-10-15 — Religious Extremism*

01-10-14 — Islam*

01-10-13 — Jihads and Crusades

01-09-19 — Fanaticism

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 Stem Cell Dilemma: A Broader Perspective

01-07-07 — The Rapture Craze*

01-06-07 — God as a Trinity*

01-06-02 The Trinity for Monotheists*

01-05-27 — The Ascension of Christ

01-05-15 — God as Spirit

01-05-02 — The Death Penalty*

01-04-26 — Resurrection

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*

00-11-24 — Advent 2000

00-10-31 — Money and Politics

00-09-15 — Controlling Death

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?*

00-06-06 — Religious Language

00-05-29 — What is Love?

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*

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