A new study showing that most Tea Partiers say America is a “Christian nation” has reignited an age-old argument about our nation’s roots. Traditionally, the debate has been polarized with social conservatives like Fox News host Glenn Beck claiming our country was founded as a sacred Christian nation and left-leaning thinkers asserting that America was [...]
Editor’s Note: Last week, Paul Solman talked to Harvard public policy professor Robert Putnam about religion in America and his new book, “American Grace.” Professor Putnam agreed to answer some of your questions — here are his replies.
Name: corlando
Question: How does America’s religious origins [...]
At the center of the recent overheated controversy that became – misleadingly – known as the “Ground Zero Mosque,” was Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
Newt Gingrich compared Rauf and other supporters of the Muslim community center and mosque to be built several blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, [...]
The idea that God guides your political values is nothing new and certainly contributed to a century of anti-Catholic bias in this country long before anti-Muslim views moved into the headlines. But there was always a counter-strain of the civility virtue active as well.
The Puritans would have come to Jon Stewart’s [...]
Los Angeles, California – Muslim Americans, with a coalition of Jewish and Christian partners, are engaging in a nationwide week of open interfaith dialogue, starting in mid-October. There is a real need for Muslim and non-Muslim American communities to better understand and interact with one another, given recent debates on Islam and a rise in [...]
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