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  • No Nukes?

    Ask anyone if they can imagine a world without nuclear weapons, and as polls indicate, most will say they can. This is true even in countries that possess nuclear weapons according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons or ICAN, a new civil society initiative dedicated to the hope of a nuclear free world.

    However, governments that possess nuclear weapons send a different signal. Their policies and expenditures say that "well...perhaps someday...but certainly not in our lifetimes."

  • Assessing the Myths of Interfaith Dialogue

    Editor's note: In light of this week's effort by the Palestinian Authority to gain statehood through the United Nations, we publish again this insightful 2006 article from the founder of the Sephardic Heritage Center, an organization devoted to preserving and promoting the history and accomplishments of Sephardic Jews.

  • Being Christian After 9/11

  • Perceive “the Other” More Fairly

    Just about everyone can remember where they were the morning of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed. As New York Conference Minister, I was scheduled to preach in New York City the following Sunday. Since all of the United States was a no-fly zone, I took the long drive through the Catskills. Needless to say the drive gave me plenty of time to think.

  • Are We More Committed to Peace-making?

    Americans experienced the first large non-domestic terrorist attack on our own soil on Sept. 11, 2001, a reality that is far too much a present and continuing reality in other parts of the world. We joined that reality in 2001. Many people died senselessly that day, and many still grieve their loss.

  • How Shall We Sing God's Song in a Strange Land?

    In Brooklyn, 2½ miles from what we would soon call Ground Zero, I looked at the glorious blue sky outside my apartment window that morning and started a list:

    1 - call mom
    2 - buy cat food
    3 - order anthem / note to treasurer

    Before I finished, the world changed.

  • Nine Eleven (2001)

    This was the year when grief moved in
    And left our lodgings rearranged.
    Nothing remained as it had been.
    The furniture of our lives had changed.

    No longer did we dare pretend
    That hospitality could not fail,
    That trust was mutual, friend to friend,
    That human goodness would prevail.

    The well from which we all must drink
    Was poisoned, and the bitter taste
    Clouded the streams of thoughts we think
    And colored them with toxic waste.

  • A Time for Dialogue

    Perhaps it was inevitable that the violent, shocking and tragic acts of 9/11 provoked two broad and contradictory sets of reactions among American Christians, each of which has persisted to this day, and perhaps even hardened. These reactions represent different readings of Islam yes, and they also represent different readings of Christian theology and ethics, scripture and history and they reveal fissures within Christianity itself.

  • We Took the Wrong Turn

    We took the wrong turn following the 9/11 disaster. We made terrorists the all consuming enemy. We turned a single horrific event into a war against all known and unknown enemies of America.

    In that mission we even attacked the wrong people. None of the highjackers were Afghanis. With the goal of destroying the Taliban and extinguishing Osama Bin Laden, we killed many innocent people, bringing destruction to the land. The Taliban was weakened, but not vanquished, and Osama was not found until ten years later. And the conflict continues in a cloud of confused purposes.

  • Sept. 11, 2001

    Remembrances and viewpoints from The Progressive Christian's contributors will appear through Sept. 11, 2011.