Madeleine Albright Interview, Muslim Pilgrimage, Interfaith Family

Saturday, April 28, 2012 Madeleine Albright Discusses Judaism And Her New World War II Book It was only recently that Albright, who turns 75 next month, said she had the time and courage to explore her own complicated past. An Episcopalian who was raised Catholic, she discovered at age 59 -- via reporting by a Washington Post journalist and during the vetting process to serve in President Bill Clinton's administration -- that she was born to Jewish parents. She also found out that more than a dozen of her family members died in the Holocaust, including three grandparents in concentration camps. Her father, a former Czech diplomat, and her mother never told her the family secret. Gay And Methodist: I Know That God Loves Me Amid Controversy, Muslims Revive Old Jerusalem Pilgrimage Route Pamay Bassey On '52 Weeks Of Worship Project' Jews React To German Decision To Publish 'Mein Kampf' "Why Don't You Just Convert?" The Story Of My Interfaith Family BLOG POSTS Rabbi Shais Taub: Tebow, Chastity and Marriage There is nothing inherently meritorious about refraining from physical intimacy. What is good and holy and healthy is for a person to be a sexual being but to do so within the context of marriage. Mark Osler: God and Guns at Walmart We should be cautious in drawing firm conclusions from this seeming correlation between public faith and gun violence, as many other factors are in play. But shouldn't faith direct us to try to stem the violence? Mark Morford: How Do You Solve a Problem Like The Uppity Nuns? Until recently, I had not the slightest clue as to what American nuns did all day. Delivering meals to the poor. Knitting giant crucifix cozies. No idea. Until now. Until I discovered that a great many American nuns have been actively and frequently pissing off the Vatican. Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.: The Name of God, to Have and to Hold? There is a long-standing tradition that no person, no mere mortal, should presume to possess the name of God. The Name, as the reasoning goes, is a holy thing, a handle on the divine not to be trifled with. Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski: Everything Wrong With Racial Profiling What we know for sure is that Trayvon Martin is dead. We may also learn again that the false assumptions that undergird all sorts of profiling endanger our citizens and visitors, and divide us against each other.

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