Alan Meisel is the Dickey, McCarey and Chicote Professor of Bioethics and Law at the University of Pittsburgh. I met him recently when we were both addressing a …
Dear Friends,
Sometimes I receive a question that requires a whole column to answer. Such was the case with a question received late this summer. I …
It has been more than a year since Gene Robinson was elected Bishop of New Hampshire by the clergy and lay deputies of the Episcopal Church in that …
The Republican Convention in New York City forced me to face the fact that my feelings about the Bush Administration have reached a visceral negativity, the intensity of …
The Republican Party in New York City this week looks very much like the Democratic Party looked in Boston last month. Strip away the posters; mute the rhetoric …
“What is it about George W. Bush that causes you to be so negative?”
That was the question I posed this summer at a dinner party …
In recent years it has been my privilege to observe first hand the state of Christianity in the various nations of Europe. It is not an encouraging picture. …
Denmark is a charming and beautiful country in Europe bounded by Germany, Sweden and the North Sea. Its image was imprinted in my memory positively during the dark …
It was half family reunion and half religious revival. The ‘Vestments” worn for “worship” included hats decorated with everything from American flags to donkeys. Some were so bizarre …
For my column this week I have written a speech on the place of religion in American life that I would like to see Senator John Kerry make …