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What Kind of Human Being Are You?
I was in a meeting this past year with community service providers, working on the question of identifying and empowering ethnic leaders in our city. Where are these ethnic leaders, and how do we help...
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Anthill 21: Growing Up
By Annabel Bligh, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Holly Squire, The Conversation, and Miriam Frankel, The Conversation Welcome to the 21st episode of The Anthill. It seems appropriate,...
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Can Secularism Be Compatible With Islam?
This article by Samee Alhwash was originally published on The Battleground and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Whether in the boycott-French-products campaign on...
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Elephant in the Room
By Khalil Bendib Get a full-resolution version here. — This post was previously published on otherwords.org under a Creative Commons License. *** If you believe in the work we are doing here at The...
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Whatever Happened To War?
After Macedonia annexed Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great launched a conquest machine that dominated much of the known world. Soon afterward, the Roman Empire spread via military force as far as...
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The Door to Leave the Forever War
My generation thought we had a problem finding the exit ramp from Vietnam. LBJ’s White House tapes showed no daylight between his public handwringing and what he said to his closest advisors in...
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Little-Known Quirk of Faith
By James A. Haught Here’s an odd twist of religion: Multitudes of Muslims believe that Jesus will return to Earth soon — not to spread Christianity, but to abolish it in support of Islam. Muslim...
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Closet Atheists Abound in America
By James A. Haught However, a 2017 poll by University of Kentucky researchers found that perhaps one-fourth of Americans are either overt skeptics or “closet atheists”: a far higher ratio than...
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Our Terrible Love of War
This morning, I made coffee and poured it into a mug I purchased in Bethlehem on one of my four trips to the Holy Land over this past decade. I sighed in a prayer filled with grief and read portions...
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One Day
Swimming in emotion soup and trying not to drown. That is the way I have been feeling since the attack by Hamas was launched on Israel on October 7th. It took the typically prepared government and...
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Not Voting for Joe Biden Isn’t Penalizing Joe Biden
We all have a story we tell ourselves, a narrative about who we are and what matters to us. It is the carefully curated working mythology of our daily lives that helps direct our decisions and...
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Queer Citizenship in India in Times of Autocratic Legalism
By Ankita Mukherjee Right-wing ideology is on the rise in Indian politics. Contemporary citizenship projects such as the National Register of Citizens and the abrogation of Article 370 are...
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