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Articles on Religion

Not the Bible

Jack Miles talks on this podcast about religious literature and his new project as Editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of World Religions from February 6, 2011.

America, Islam and the 'ground zero mosque'

Video of a lecture given at at The Australian National University on 9 September 2010.

Self- Defense and Defense Against the Self

Opening remarks at the Symposium on Religion and Peace, held under the theme "Global Militarization - Religions' Response," at the Student Center of the University of California, Irvine (UCI), on May 13, 2010.

Trading Places

A Once-Catholic Episcopalian Looks at Benedict’s Offer. Published in Commonweal on January 15, 2010.


Anglican Disunion

WHAT IS ROWAN WILLIAMS TRYING TO HOLD TOGETHER? Published in Commonweal on September 12, 2008.


Benedict XVI at the United Nations

Published in Religion and Ethics, April 2008.


Reza Aslan in Conversation with Jack Miles

Two acclaimed thinkers about religion—Reza Aslan and Jack Miles—conduct an enlightening on-stage conversation about the state of Islam. From UC Television, January 31, 2008.


Religious Identities and Violence

American Historical Review conversation from December 2007. Includes Philip Benedict, Nora Berend, Stephen Ellis, Jeffrey Kaplan, Ussama Makdisi, and Jack Miles. 


Anglicans of the world disunite

Published in the International Herald Tribune on February 28, 2007.


A Divorce the Church Should Smile Upon

A generation from now, when we look back on the breakup of the Anglican Communion and on the status of homosexuals within the churches of the world, what may we expect to see?


Closing the Gap on Believers

Is religion more prominent or less today in American life? Is it fading away or roaring ahead? Published in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles on November 5, 2004.


What Would Baby Jesus Say?

An article from Slate, Dec. 22, 2005, on the silence of God.


Ratz!

Benedict XVI: Habemus papam, vivat status quo. From Slate online. Published April 19, 2005.


What Jews Need to Know About Jesus

A Q&A primer regarding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ, and what we know about Jesus and who killed Him. Cover story from The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, February 25, 2004.


What Would Jesus Say About Gay Marriage?

Divorce, not homosexuality, was the deviation that preoccupied him. Cover story from Beliefnet, February 19, 2004.


The God of Abraham, Jesus, and Muhammad

The author of God: A Biography says that, yes, of course Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship the same God, from Beliefnet, December 3, 2003.


Catholicism as a Protestantism

From Theology Today, January 1976.


As We See It

Invited contribution to a symposium on the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) from the magazine Company, Fall 1995. (scroll down)


The Most Dangerous Religion

(Hint: It's not Islam)


Buying a Seat Near Heaven

Give democracy--and your local house of worship--a sporting chance.


Can We Make the World a Worse Place?

On religion and world peace.


The Dogma Catholics Deserve

Will Catholics do more than shrug glumly at their church's bullying?


Papal Silence

When the pope quietly sat through an anti-Semitic diatribe, did his silence signal his assent?


Theology and the Clash of Civilizations

Peace will come not when any one terrorist and his network of secret agents have been 'surgically' excised but when an authentic alternative vision has emerged within the House of Islam. From Cross Currents, Winter 2002.