A Life’s Calling
For Liz Theoharis C’98, activism has been a way of life—from assisting her parents with their justice work, to community service as a Penn undergrad, to cochairing the recent revival of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. The Presbyterian minister, social justice leader, and biblical scholar is committed to reframing the narrative around poverty and the poor while pushing for lasting policy changes.
Father Martin’s New Mission
Jesuit priest James Martin reflects on his path to LGBT-focused ministry.
The Law, The Gospel, and David Skeel
How Penn’s foremost expert on bankruptcy law became one of the most surprising voices in contemporary evangelical Christianity.
Religious Freedom at the Brink
Mitchell Center’s “The States of Religious Freedom.”
The Many Songs of David
Rabbi David Wolpe is an admired writer, the popular leader of one of the largest Conservative Jewish congregations in the country, and one of the “50 most influential Jews in the world.” His latest book, David: The Divided Heart, delves into one of the Bible’s most fascinating—and human—characters.
Rites of Spring
How to get an A in self-awareness.
Bringing a Woman’s Touch to a Sensitive Ceremony
Lucy Eisenstein Waldman Nu’91
The Business of Faith
Kirbyjon Caldwell WG’77
Word!
Carl Harrison Gr’70
Arnold Eisen’s Moment
With his appointment as chancellor of New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, the noted religious-studies scholar—and one time Gazette student columnist and assistant to former Penn President Martin Meyerson—is only the second non-rabbi to serve as the symbolic head of American Judaism’s Conservative movement.
Inclusive Fruit for Reactionary Times
Susannah Heschel Gr’89 is a Jewish woman and feminist revolutionary
The Faithful Blogger
Vatican blogger Rocco Palmo C’04
Music Lessons
Carol Muller’s ethnomusicology class partners with a West Philadelphia Islamic school to explore the sounds of the Qur’an, and each other’s communities.
Intelligent Demise
As the lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the Dover school-board case, law alumnus Eric Rothschild demolished the arguments of intelligent design’s proponents—including one fellow Penn grad.
Feet and Faith
A century before intelligent design’s claims to science status wilted under close scrutiny, a Penn commission debunked another popular—and fraudulent—religious movement.
Common Culture, Common Ground
American Christians are as American as they are Christian.
Make It Plain!
Michael Eric Dyson—professor, preacher, and “paid pest”—brings a critical eye and rhetorical flair to his analyses of hip-hop culture and his call for social justice.
Coming to Terms
During the High Holidays, a beloved rabbi nearing retirement and an author chronicling the search for his replacement mourn and remember their fathers.
Nintendo, Limp Bizkit, and … God
Losing their religion (Not!)
What Price Religious Freedom?
Faith and freedom
Emergency Contraception and Catholic Theology
When patients’ rights and religious restrictions collide.
Three Days of Hope
Keeping faith with the cities