Three weeks before Lent begins each year, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18:9–14). For Orthodox Christians, this parable, in which a Pharisee confidently reports on his virtues and a tax collector humbly asks God for mercy, tees off a pre-Lenten season focused on humility and repentance.
When we advertise our righteousness it becomes self righteousness
In the beginning God created difference
Theodore Hiebert’s deft reading elicits a fresh awareness of the legitimacy of the other in Genesis.
Daniel Ortega s slide into corruption and authoritarianism
Nicaragua’s liberator has become its dictator.
Religious freedom in America
Melissa Rogers considers what a healthy role for religion in American public life might look like.