2011-09-11T13:18:02Z Georgetown University scholars explore religion in the news. tag:onfaith.washingtonpost.com,2011:/onfaith/georgetown/628 Copyright (c) 2011, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive 2011-09-11T13:18:02Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-09-11:/onfaith/georgetown2011/09/nine_eleven.html

UNORTHODOXY Patrick J. Deneen September 11, 2001, we are frequently told, is the day that "changed everything." For the 3,000 people in New York City and Washington D.C. who were killed on that blue-skied day, and for their families, that 9-11 "changed everything" barely suffices to describe what happened on that day. For the many more thousands of people in our military who have been deployed in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for their...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2011-03-14T00:28:05Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-03-13:/onfaith/georgetown2011/03/the_rss_feed_for_this_blog_has_moved.html

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Washington Post editors 2011-03-09T02:05:35Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-03-09:/onfaith/georgetown2011/03/switzerland_beyond_the_minaret_ban.html

In November, 2009, peace-loving Switzerland shocked itself and the world when over 57 percent of its voters supported a referendum to ban construction of new minarets. The government had opposed the proposition on the grounds that it was unconstitutional, contravening Switzerland's commitment to religious freedom. In the expectation that the measure would fail and fearing that a "positive" campaign would fuel fear, the government did not actively campaign against it. In Switzerland's unique democracy, the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2011-03-08T15:01:08Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-03-08:/onfaith/georgetown2011/03/republicans_fight_for_god_at_the_iowa_faith_and_freedom.html

By Jacques Berlinerblau The 2012 Republican Presidential race for conservative Christian hearts and minds and votes got off to an unbelievable start yesterday--really, I mean, beyond anything I could have ever dreamed of--when the ultra-Conservative, Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition hosted its 11th Annual Spring Kick off. I hadn't even pulled my Scofield Reference Bible down off the shelf when the evening's MC, Gopal Krishna, was already lambasting the "weird and kinky lifestyles" that have...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Jacques Berlinerblau 2011-03-04T20:09:10Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-03-02:/onfaith/georgetown2011/03/civility_and_democracy.html

Unorthodoxy Patrick J. Deneen In the wake of the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona, a chorus of voices - mainly, if not exclusively on the political Left - arose in denunciation of the decline of "civility" in contemporary political life. Somewhat incredibly, some of the more prominent voices on the political Right - such as Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin - denounced these calls for civility. There were efforts - often successful, in fact -...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2011-03-02T16:12:34Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-03-01:/onfaith/georgetown2011/03/the_god_vote.html

By Sam Dinger WATCH: "The core principles of Sharia are analogous to the core principles of the Constitution," says the imam behind the planned Islamic center near Ground Zero. Imam Rauf also talks about his hopes for the Muslim Brotherhood, the revolts in the Middle East and what he thinks of the arguments made by his critics. With the world's attention currently fixed on the upheaval in the Middle East, it is easy to forget...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Sam Dinger 2011-02-28T17:25:09Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-28:/onfaith/georgetown2011/02/immigration_view_from_the_faith_side.html

By Katherine Marshall FAITH IN ACTION The irony is familiar but still troubling: America, a nation proudly built by and for immigrants, today has a badly broken immigration system. But the debate about how to fix it has been fractious and unproductive. We seem to be stalled. At Georgetown's Berkley Center, a group of scholars and activists last week explored how religious leaders and communities see the issue and what they are doing about it....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2011-02-23T16:26:13Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-23:/onfaith/georgetown2011/02/islamist_politics_or_american_fears.html

By Dean K. Lieberman One of most prominent questions facing international commentators today: are Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya (if Qaddafi falls) going to become the new Irans? Professor Samer Shehata, this week's guest on The God Vote with Sally Quinn and Jacques Berlinerblau, asserts Egypt is not going the way of theocracy. The year 1979, he says, is a false analogy to what just transpired in Egypt. Why? Islamist parties have emerged into new entities...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Dean K. Lieberman 2011-02-15T20:06:19Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-15:/onfaith/georgetown2011/02/evangelicals_and_islam.html

A group of American Christians, most of them evangelicals, met for four days last weekend with a distinguished group of Moroccans at Eastern Mennonite University, concluding with a public session Monday at Georgetown University's Berkley Center. To an outsider, the point of the conclave was not easy to fathom. It opened with a showing of a terrifying film about nuclear threats: Countdown to Zero, and concluded with heartfelt statements of shared interests and values. What...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2011-02-14T22:49:22Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-14:/onfaith/georgetown2011/02/love_cannot_be_earned.html

By Patrick Deneen Unorthodoxy A woman holds Valentine's Day balloons to hand out on a street in Lisbon February 14, 2011. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante When we think of love today, we tend to think of it in dominantly private terms. Love is that intense emotion between lovers, between spouses, between parents and children, between siblings and immediate members of family or close friends. Love is a private emotion, usually dyadic or extendable to very few close...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick Deneen 2011-02-08T00:53:01Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-07:/onfaith/georgetown2011/02/morocco_its_complicated.html

The rapid-fire events in Tunisia and Egypt have caught people everywhere by surprise. That's especially true in the neighborhood (North Africa and the Middle East). As I headed for Morocco for a weekend conference, I hoped to emerge with a far clearer understanding, both of what sparked these popular upheavals now, and what might lie ahead. What I found were people torn between a euphoric hope, especially at the unleashing of freedom of speech, and...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2011-02-04T16:49:41Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-04:/onfaith/georgetown2011/02/obama_at_national_prayer_breakfast_raging_christ-fest_secular_wake.html

By Jacques Berlinerblau President Obama spoke on Thursday morning at the 59th annual National Prayer Breakfast. The gathering is one of those peculiar Washington pageants that elicits diametrically opposed reactions from those who bother to take note of its existence. Those hostile to the NPB view it as a raging Christ-fest. Those in support of it view it as good, clean, absolutely necessary, public worship of our God. I, as you may have surmised, could...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Jacques Berlinerblau 2011-01-31T04:08:05Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-01-31:/onfaith/georgetown2011/01/forgotten_crisis_stateless_in_bangladesh.html

As the rich and powerful gathered in Davos last week, a Refugee Run (simulation of life as a refugee) aimed to bring home to a select group of delegates the contrast between their privileged lives and the uncertainties and misery of the world's refugees. My colleagues Michael Bodakowski and Melody Fox Ahmed made a visit that accomplished that goal far more effectively: to a camp in Bangladesh where Muslim Aid, a UK-based, Islamic-inspired group, works...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2011-01-26T13:38:43Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-01-25:/onfaith/georgetown2011/01/obamas_state_of_the_union_bye_bye_faith_and_values_hello_education.html

By Jacques Berlinerblau "So, Jacques, what's the over/under on tonight's 'Scripture bombs'?" That's a question reporters sometimes used to ask me before a major address by the president or a presidential candidate back in 2008. Let me explain. A "Scripture bomb" is my term for the citation, whether explicit or covert, whether verbatim or glossed, of words from the Bible by a politician during an important speech. Going into tonight's State of the Union I...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Jacques Berlinerblau 2011-01-23T19:03:10Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-01-24:/onfaith/georgetown2011/01/an_inspiring_constitution_south_africa.html

National pride is palpable in South Africa but so are the stunning challenges that face what is in many respects a new nation, reborn with the death knell to Apartheid in 1994. Nowhere are the roots of both more evident than on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. There sits a unique South African institution, its Constitutional Court, with 11 judges who can (and do) instruct political leaders on constitutional principles and uphold South Africa's young constitution,...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall