We’re all experts on religion. Right?   We’ve been in enough bull sessions to know we hold our own very well  when it comes to talking about our own and all the other faiths.  Few subjects rouse as much conversation as religions and our general attitudes of superiority about our own.
Comes now a new Pew  Research study of 3,412 people between May and June that determined that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons appear to be the most informed about the religious world in general. What?  How could “non-believers” know more about religion that …

It came as a jolt last March to the congregation of Temple Beth Sholom in Chandler when authorities arrested their rabbi  right in the temple parking lot — guns drawn —  and subsequently charged him with rape of a minor, which was said to have happened 10 years before. The rabbi, then 45, was accused of raping a 7-year-old girl and family friend during a sleepover at his New York City apartment in March 2000
Now six months later, Rabbi Bryan Bramly is a free man, but will he be able to return to his Chandler temple …

The Rev. Vernon Meyer ranks near or at the top among theologians and Christian educators in Arizona. The founder  and director of the the Arizona Center for Theological Studies has been a popular teacher of scripture and Christian history.  Bright, articulate and progressive, he has been THE Catholic educator who has reached more non-Catholics through his teaching.
Until early this month, he was a highly respected Catholic priest who had maintained a rigorous schedule of  teaching workshops at parishes and the Franciscan Renewal Center, as well at ACTS, whose classes are at CrossRoads United Methodist …

Corporations are killing America. Powerful companies have manipulated their way to a commanding control over the institutions of this country. Their board room greed, their lack of conscience, their unbridled and shameless methods of total domination of greater parts of the economic landscape are a breathtaking  tragedy.  They’ve proven that capitalism without controls and rules is disastrous.
Their methodical lobbying and their huge campaign contributions have won them lawmakers who do their dealing to reduce regulations and oversight and make it easier to create multinational monopolies that cannot be touched. Government regulators are …