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President Obama discusses his plans and hopes for the American religious community. More
Alzheimer’s disease gets progressively worse and there is no known cure. After a certain point, should an Alzheimer’s patient be kept alive with a feeding tube? Many family members say, of course: they should do everything possible to prolong a loved one’s life. But some doctors say inserting a feeding tube is inhumane, because it can just prolong a vegetative state for years. More
Father Damien de Veuster, a missionary priest from Belgium, arrived at the Hawaiian leper colony Kalaupapa in 1873 to cared for the outcasts, and eventually died of leprosy himself. More
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Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says while religious conservatives are pleased by President Barack Obama’s faith-based rhetoric and outreach, they have concerns about how his administration will deal with some of their core issues, such as abortion and defining … More
Martin Luther King Jr. associate Vincent Harding, a professor emeritus at the Iliff School of Theology who chairs the Veterans of Hope Project, draws connections between President Barack Obama’s election and the civil rights movement and talks about what the … More
Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, says many US Muslims are optimistic that President Barack Obama’s administration will lead to a new climate of religious openness.
As Justice William O. Douglas intoned over 50 years ago, “We are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.” That truth was on full display at the inauguration of our 44th president, Barack Obama. The ceremonies were … More
I turned on CNN just before leaving for work in Toronto early Tuesday morning. Cameras showed a sea of people making their way onto the National Mall, hurrying in order to wait for five hours, happily enduring 20-degree temperatures. A … More
We didn’t quite dare to say it out loud before, but today we repeated it to ourselves over and over: We have our first African-American president. Barack Obama never asked us to vote for him because of his race, and … More