First of all, Hinduism is not a religion as we tend to think of a religion. It is a name given to a range of practices, attitudes, beliefs, schools of thought, and the social and ...
While we are looking for common ground with followers of other religions, it is also good to be aware of and not gloss over the differences. The differences between us will not disappear. They make ...
A recent trip to Turkey reveals some surprises about Islam and politics
Current events in a country bridging Europe and Asia are offering an important object lesson about the Muslim world: it is not monolithic, and there are significant forces for ...
At the beginning of March, Philip Groning's film Into Great Silence—a two-hour and forty-minute meditation on life in the Grande Chartreuse Carthusian monastery in southeastern France—opened ...
Catholic-Muslim Relations in the wake of the Pope's controversial remarks
As the firestorm of reaction cools to some sentences in Pope Benedict's talk on September 12 at Regensberg University in Germany, the questions of the hour are: What lessons ...
Though its influence among Christians in the West may be waning, the sacred art of fasting is flourishing in the rest of the world.
This October all adult and physically capable Muslims abstain from food, water and sexual relations from dawn to sunset during the lunar month of Ramadan (October 5 to ...
