On the day of John F. Kennedy’s funeral, Robert Kennedy wrote his eldest child, who was 12, a short note: “Dear Kathleen,” it said, “you seemed to understand that Jack died and was buried today. As the oldest of the […]

Once there was a Christian, a man from a wealthy family. He had conservative values, and he crusaded his whole life for social justice. In the end, he changed history. His name was William Wilberforce, and in 1807 he finally

Christian pastors do it with Muslim imams. High-school seniors do it with each other. Actors and authors do it, as do comedians and combat pilots. It’s interfaith dialogue, and in the world of religion, it’s very much in vogue.

There is at least one moment in every religious person’s life where commitment to faith collides, inconveniently, with desire. For Zeena Altalib, that moment occurred last year at the local swimming pool. An American Muslim of Iraqi descent, Altalib wanted

In your prayers tonight, you might want to thank God that no one has put you in charge of the Task Force on General Education at Harvard.

When Julie Sandorf’s daughter, Sarah, was 3 years old, she came home from nursery school and declared: “Mommy, I don’t want to be a Jewish, I want to be a Christian.” These words sent Sandorf, an assimilated Jew with almost

By the standards of episcopal Church meetings, it was a thrilling and entirely unexpected outcome. When the governing body of the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion met in June to elect a new presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori,