Americans cheered when Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass., won a gold medal on Tuesday (July 31) in the women’s all-around gymnastics competition, but at least some American Jews likely cheered a little louder.

“For people who are part of a minority, to see one of your own have this international recognition gives you enormous satisfaction and pride,” said Rabbi Keith Stern of Temple Beth Avodah in Newton Centre, Mass., where Raisman has worshipped since childhood.

Recently, I’ve been puzzling over the things our country considers sacred. The first things that come to mind are God, motherhood, the American flag and guns.

Conservative Christians, like myself, have to figure out how to represent Christ and human dignity in ways that disarm this type of bigotry instead of inflaming the flawed rhetoric and dangerous ignorance that undergirds such prejudice. Eric Blauer A gay man’s stabbing close to my home, has struck close to …

On Aug. 9 at  p.m. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church will host a free screening of "The Last Mountain."

This film tells the story of a small group of ordinary citizens trying to stop big coal corporations from continuing the practice of mountaintop removal mining.

The Obama administration’s policy requiring most employers to provide free birth control coverage in their health insurance policies takes effect on Wednesday (Aug. 1) -- a deadline that has sparked apocalyptic warnings from conservative activists and some faith groups.
“August 1st is a day that will live in infamy for the First Amendment and the fundamental freedoms and rights we as a people have enjoyed since the founding of our nation,” said Brent Bozell, head of ForAmerica.

This is an issue I think needs addressing in the wake of the Chick-Fil-A controversy.

Regardless of one's personal stance on homosexuality, is taking a position that the homosexual lifestyle is immoral necessarily a hateful one?