Selected Readings

Selected Readings

Ramadan, Date Omelets, and Global Compassion

by Omid Safi, Colgate University

Ramadan was simpler in my childhood: It was about date omelets.

We got up around 4 or 4:30 a.m. to have a suhur, also called sahari, meaning a dawn-time meal. After that, no food and no water until sunset time. For the grown-ups, it meant no smoking, and as they love to joke about it, no sex until sunset. Then we would break our fasts with a meal called iftar. Getting out of bed was always a titanic struggle, but not on Ramadan mornings. We got to have a special treat on those days: date omelets.

The Charter of L'Arche

L'Arche began in 1964 when Jean Vanier and Father Thomas Philippe, in response to a call from God, invited Raphael Simi and Philippe Seux, two men with mental handicaps, to come and share their life in the spirit of the Gospel and of the Beatitudes that Jesus preached.

Words from a Little-Known Theologian

Marty notes that the writings of a little-known theologian, Joseph Sittler, have played an influential role in his life.

Campaign Yearbook

Playing off the "flip-flop" campaign mantra of 2004, Marty takes the opportunity to look back at historical flip-flops of religious communities in the 1960s.

Disponsibilité

Marty uses the French philosophical term as a message about service and being available to gift of life and the grace of others.

The War-Time Lincoln and the Ironic Tradition in America

In commemoration of the Gettysburg address and the presidency of Lincoln, this 2000 lecture by Marty applies some Niebuhrian perspectives on historical irony to the contemporary scene.

On 'Not Three Gods'

A letter defending the concept of the Trinity by one of the formulators of the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

"Ash Wednesday"

"Because I do not hope to turn again, Let these words answer, For what is done, not to be done again..." Hear audio of poet T.S. Eliot reading his poem, a favorite of Krista's guest Karen Armstrong.

Protecting Religion from Politics

by Jewish thinker Susannah Heschel

The Role of Religion in Electoral Politics

by Christian minister Cheryl J. Sanders

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