A link on Facebook today, on Evangelicals becoming Catholics, led me to a very informative magazine, called Religious Dispatches, that I recommend to you today. Here is a short presentation, that you can find on their website:
Religion Dispatches is a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation.
Rigorous, open and respectful debate about central issues of the day is essential if democracies are to survive and flourish. Although religion is one of the most powerful forces shaping domestic and global politics today, it remains among the least understood and under-analyzed dimensions of our world. Partisan religious voices are all too common, but they do little to help us understand the dynamics of religion in the contemporary world. Whether dealing with fundamentalist movements at home and abroad, the purported clash of civilizations or public controversies over sexuality, immigration, and AIDS, gaining a deeper understanding of the role of religion, for good and for ill, is imperative. Read on…
Here is, for those interested, a list of articles on this site that might be worth reading:
- Romney Campaign to Surrender Evangelicals in 2012
- Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?
- Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid
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