democracy
In Sikh founder’s life, a model for letting justice guide our democracy
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 8, 2022
(RNS) — How the life of my faith’s founder and the civic values of Election Day are connected.
Defending our sacred right to vote
By Barbara Williams-Skinner, Jim Wallis, and Adam Taylor — October 3, 2022
(RNS) — Why we are mobilizing 2,000 poll chaplains to serve as visions of peace and a moral presence at the polls.
Yoga versus democracy? What survey data says about spiritual Americans’ political behavior
By Evan Stewart and Jaime Kucinskas — September 3, 2022
(The Conversation) — As the US gets less religious, some thinkers warn that it may get more selfish as people engage less with their communities. A team of scholars decided to investigate that concern.
What 13th-century Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas can teach us about hope in times of despair
By Christopher Beem — January 20, 2022
(The Conversation) — A scholar of democratic virtues explains why Dominican monk Thomas Aquinas’ thoughts on hope are relevant today.
Be the flame of democracy on Jan. 6
By Auburn Senior Fellows — January 4, 2022
(RNS) — Efforts to undermine democracy fly in the face of the belief that we are all created equal.
White Christian nationalism found fertile soil in post-9/11 America
By Robert P. Jones — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — Since the Bush era, the attitudes of Republicans, including white evangelicals who comprise the party’s base, have increasingly aligned with a worldview rooted in centuries of white supremacist theology.
The Baptist insights of the man who wrote ‘Robert’s Rules’
By Mark Silk — July 9, 2021
(RNS) — It's time for our democracy to give the man his due.
Is democracy sacred?
By Anthony D. Baker — November 6, 2020
(The Conversation) — "Though politics relies on virtue, this does not make it religious," writes Anthony D. Baker.
India can take lessons from US in our struggle to end casteism
By Joseph D'Souza — June 11, 2020
(RNS) — While America's response must feel tortuous to those marching, it gives me hope that India, where I sit, can confront its past and present history of casteism.
Turkish attack on Syria endangers a remarkable democratic experiment by the Kurds
By James L. Gelvin — October 11, 2019
(The Conversation) — In a region where religion and politics are often intertwined, the Kurdish state is secular, and the current conflict threatens to end one of the only such democracies in the Middle East.
I’m a rabbi, and I understand Israel is not a democracy
By Alissa Wise — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — I believe one day U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib will be able to visit her grandmother without forfeiting her commitment to justice to do so. That day is hastened when we see Israel for what it is: not a flawed democracy, but no democracy at all.
When you’re the one in the captain’s chair
By David P. Gushee — December 8, 2016
It is easy to be the fire-breathing prophet when you are not the leader.
What encourages me about this election
By John Fea — November 10, 2016
(RNS) "I am upset by the results of the election and I am particularly saddened that 81 percent of white American evangelicals got into bed with a monster on Tuesday (Nov. 8)," writes John Fea. "But I am also encouraged and have not lost hope."
Key Tunisian party renounces political Islam
By Tom Heneghan — May 23, 2016
(RNS) A party congress over the weekend voted to drop Ennahda’s traditional religious work and participate in Tunisian politics as a regular political party.
Muslim theology faculties develop an ‘Islam for Germany’
By Tom Heneghan — April 27, 2016
(RNS) The practical approach these faculties have taken contrasts sharply with the increasingly shrill declarations coming from Germany’s far-right.
