Writings by Topic: Religion
in
|
Articles, Reviews
Grouped | Not Grouped
|
|
Articles |
| Title |
Publication |
Date  |
|
| No, 'E Pluribus Unum' isn't a lie |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 2026 |
| Saints in storage |
The Boston Globe |
February 1, 2026 |
| From two midwives in Egypt to Martin Luther King |
Arguable |
January 13, 2026 |
| Would Jesus be safe in a synagogue today? |
Arguable |
December 23, 2025 |
| The 12-foot skeleton next door |
Arguable |
October 28, 2025 |
| Erika Kirk, Yom Kippur, and the limits of forgiveness |
Arguable |
September 30, 2025 |
| The freedom of limits: A Rosh Hashanah meditation |
The Boston Globe |
September 21, 2025 |
| Politics doesn't belong in the pulpit. Neither does the IRS. |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2025 |
| Washington State targets the confessional seal |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2025 |
| 'War does not solve problems,' declares the pope. He's wrong. |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2025 |
| A harsh immigration crackdown is a strange way to show love |
The Boston Globe |
February 12, 2025 |
| What MAGA really hated about Bishop Budde's homily |
The Boston Globe |
February 2, 2025 |
| When truths collide |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2025 |
| 'First, set fire to their synagogues' |
Arguable |
December 10, 2024 |
| Thank God for the 'invisible hand' |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2024 |
| The missionary in the parking lot |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2024 |
| Oklahoma urges private groups to launch charter schools — as long as they're not religious |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2024 |
| Fix the filibuster by bringing it back |
Arguable |
October 1, 2024 |
| Religion is America's mighty engine of charitable goodness |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2024 |
| Joseph Lieberman, mensch |
The Boston Globe/Arguable |
April 3, 2024 |
| Donald Trump, man of — faith? |
Arguable |
January 9, 2024 |
| What Hamas can learn from Hanukkah |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 2023 |
| A free society protects your right to burn a holy book |
The Boston Globe |
July 19, 2023 |
| Oklahoma says yes to a religious charter school. So does the First Amendment. |
The Boston Globe |
June 11, 2023 |
| What's so special about matzah? |
Arguable |
April 4, 2023 |
| Is this how a new Great Awakening begins? |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2023 |
| Priestly celibacy gets a rethink |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
March 21, 2023 |
| Lawmakers challenge the secrecy of the confessional |
The Boston Globe |
March 12, 2023 |
| Patton's prayer |
Arguable |
December 6, 2022 |
| No, Justice Barrett should not recuse herself |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 2022 |
| The Pilgrims' rabbi |
Arguable |
November 22, 2022 |
| Tom Hanks is a great pretender |
Arguable |
June 20, 2022 |
| When Jesus told stories about economics |
Arguable |
May 16, 2022 |
| Boston's ignominious record of disrespecting free speech |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2022 |
| The Passover story is an American story |
The Boston Globe |
April 13, 2022 |
| Jewish Study for Non-Jewish Clergy |
Sapir |
Winter 2022 |
| Does free speech fly at City Hall Plaza? |
The Boston Globe |
January 12, 2022 |
| Again the Supreme Court defends religious believers. Again it's unanimous |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2021 |
| Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2021 |
| Mark Jacoby, 1925-2021 |
Arguable |
February 8, 2021 |
| My JD doesn't make me a doctor. Jill Biden's EdD doesn't make her one, either |
Arguable |
December 14, 2020 |
| The coronavirus curfews make no sense |
Arguable |
November 25, 2020 |
| Were California voters confused? |
Arguable |
November 9, 2020 |
| The Christian flag and the Boston flagpole |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2020 |
| 'Cancel culture' grows increasingly cruel |
Arguable |
June 29, 2020 |
| The 'Great Pope' who changed the world |
Arguable |
May 18, 2020 |
| My father survived the Holocaust. That molded my worldview |
Arguable |
January 27, 2020 |
| When Massachusetts was the battlefield in the war on Christmas |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2019 |
| Leave adoption out of the culture wars |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2019 |
| Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Law |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2019 |
| The right choice |
Mishpacha |
October 10, 2019 |
| Blessed are the retractors |
The Boston Globe |
October 6, 2019 |
| 'Proclaim Liberty': How the Hebrew Bible molded revolutionary America |
The Boston Globe |
July 7, 2019 |
| Temptation, the Talmud, and the Pope |
Arguable |
June 17, 2019 |
| A less religious America will be a less generous America |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 2019 |
| Apollo 8's perfect Christmas message |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2018 |
| A war memorial is in the form of a cross. Is that a problem? |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 2018 |
| The kosher-industrial complex |
The Boston Globe |
November 18, 2018 |
| The businessman in the cassock |
The Boston Globe |
June 24, 2018 |
| The real significance of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision |
The Boston Globe |
June 6, 2018 |
| The Mayflower Compact and the seeds of American democracy |
The Boston Globe |
November 21, 2017 |
| On the death penalty, Francis is going where no pope has gone before |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2017 |
| Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana |
The Boston Globe |
September 17, 2017 |
| America's melting pot and America's Muslims |
The Boston Globe |
September 3, 2017 |
| Wouk and remembrance |
Arguable |
May 8, 2017 |
| Automatic forgiveness makes the world more dangerous |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2017 |
| An Orthodox journalist in the secular media |
Mishpacha |
April 2017 |
| Deliver us from Scripture-citers |
The Boston Globe |
March 26, 2017 |
| Is that sermon political? |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2017 |
| Less Frank Costanza, more Mike Pence |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2016 |
| Is Thanksgiving constitutional? |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2016 |
| How the religious right embraced Donald Trump and lost its moral authority |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2016 |
| Houses of worship are more than pews and prayerbooks |
The Boston Globe |
April 5, 2016 |
| Garrett Swasey's final sermon |
The Boston Globe |
December 6, 2015 |
| So what if Ben Carson is a creationist? |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 2015 |
| Something worse than the IRS awaits greedy televangelists |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2015 |
| A moral world requires moral violence |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2015 |
| The case for Israel is rooted in more than security |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 2015 |
| Look who's making an issue of Obama's religion |
The Boston Globe |
February 25, 2015 |
| Spare the blogger and lash us instead |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2015 |
| 'Who will rest and who will wander' |
The Boston Globe |
October 1, 2014 |
| The radical dream of 'peace on earth' |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2013 |
| Typhoon Haiyan and the old, old problem of evil |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2013 |
| It's not the pope's culture war |
The Boston Globe |
September 25, 2013 |
| Darwin's conundrum: Where does compassion come from? |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2013 |
| What is Islam? |
The Boston Globe |
July 7, 2013 |
| Supreme, yes. But infallible? |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 2013 |
| Politics and the G-word |
The Boston Globe |
September 9, 2012 |
| America the non-racist |
The Boston Globe |
June 27, 2012 |
| Outraged by Mormon proxy baptism? Not this Jew |
The Boston Globe |
February 29, 2012 |
| Quakers, conscience, and contraception |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2012 |
| For Arab Christians, a wintry 'spring' |
The Boston Globe |
December 7, 2011 |
| The Cairo pogrom |
The Boston Globe |
October 12, 2011 |
| The search for meaning in mortality |
The Boston Globe |
October 5, 2011 |
| Anti-religious diatribes come in different forms |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2011 |
| Philosophy, faith, and the Fourth of July |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2011 |
| Outrage that misses the target |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2011 |
| A ban on circumcision? |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 2011 |
| Separation of Jesus and Congress |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 2011 |
| Created by God to be good |
The Boston Globe |
November 14, 2010 |
| Give peace a chance with government-free schools |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 2010 |
| Not all tidings are of great joy |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2009 |
| Called to marriage, called to God |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 2009 |
| Islam and freedom of speech |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2009 |
| Sue them: First Amendment news ghost? |
GetReligion.org |
January 3, 2009 |
| Religious liberty |
The Boston Globe |
December 31, 2008 |
| Being good for God's sake |
The Boston Globe |
November 26, 2008 |
| A question of faith |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2008 |
| Is God a Democrat or a Republican? |
World Jewish Digest |
October 2008 |
| 'Honor' killing comes to the US |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2008 |
| Pastor Hagee was, and wasn't, wrong |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 2008 |
| By the light of the White House menorah |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 2007 |
| A country where politicians 'do God' |
The Boston Globe |
December 5, 2007 |
| Is Israel a Jewish state? |
The Boston Globe |
November 14, 2007 |
| Learning from a 'church' of hate |
The Boston Globe |
October 31, 2007 |
| Man of science, man of faith |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 2007 |
| Anti-Mormonism gets personal |
The Boston Globe |
July 1, 2007 |
| Science, ideology, and stem cells |
The Boston Globe |
June 24, 2007 |
| A look at the good -- and the bad -- for US Muslims |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 2007 |
| Why we need religion |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 2007 |
| The Boston mosque's Saudi connection |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2007 |
| Atheists' bleak alternative |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 2006 |
| Undeserved forgiveness |
The Boston Globe |
October 8, 2006 |
| The silence of God |
The Boston Globe |
June 4, 2006 |
| The suing of Ahmed Mansour |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2006 |
| As Father Coughlin spins in his grave |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2006 |
| Kids take back seat to gay agenda |
The Boston Globe |
March 15, 2006 |
| Adoption flap a tragedy for children |
The Boston Globe |
March 5, 2006 |
| Indonesia's anti-extremist |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2006 |
| Bringing faith into contempt |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2006 |
| Questions the Islamic Society should answer |
The Boston Globe |
January 1, 2006 |
| De-Christmasing Christmas |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2005 |
| Mitt Romney, cover candidate |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2005 |
| The pope who turned antisemitism aside |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 2005 |
| Angry with God |
The Boston Globe |
January 6, 2005 |
| A Jew says 'Merry Christmas' |
The Boston Globe |
December 19, 2004 |
| John Kerry, preacher man |
boston.com |
October 26, 2004 |
| One answer not given |
The Boston Globe |
October 14, 2004 |
| Making the case for parochial school |
The Boston Globe |
May 9, 2004 |
| Faith in the depths of hell |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 2004 |
| Is 'The Passion' antisemitic? |
The Boston Globe |
February 24, 2004 |
| The triumph of Chanukah |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2003 |
| A miracle in Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2003 |
| Israel's unshakable allies |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2003 |
| Repentance comes first |
The Boston Globe |
September 15, 2002 |
| 'Under God' |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2002 |
| Criminal priests and the commandments |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 2002 |
| The voices of Islam's moderates |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 2001 |
| Blindness to evil leads to more evil |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 2001 |
| Calling evil by its name |
The Boston Globe |
September 16, 2001 |
| A mufti's unending vitriol |
The Boston Globe |
August 23, 2001 |
| The ACLU and the G-word |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 2000 |
| The greatest confession in 2,000 years |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 2000 |
| Who's afraid of the Southern Baptists? |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 1999 |
| Punished for praying in Boston |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 1999 |
| Where were the adults? |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 1999 |
| Papal interference in Missouri |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 1999 |
| Is Andy Young deaf? |
The Boston Globe |
December 24, 1998 |
| What real hate speech sounds like |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 1998 |
| True to the God of their mother — despite their father's wish |
The Boston Globe |
December 16, 1997 |
| Pol Pot's clear conscience |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 1997 |
| Christian suffering is on the rise |
The Boston Globe |
December 24, 1996 |
| The false gods of popular culture |
The Boston Globe |
December 17, 1996 |
| The faith that links Thanksgiving and Chanukah |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 1996 |
| A cardinal's compassion for a killer |
The Boston Globe |
September 24, 1996 |
| The suffering of a mother bird |
The Boston Globe |
September 5, 1996 |
| Paying the price for faith |
The Boston Globe |
August 29, 1996 |
| The founders' formula: faith and liberty |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 1996 |
| Religion and the American idea |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 1995 |
| Light's victory over darkness |
The Boston Globe |
November 24, 1994 |
| Harping on Romney's religion |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 1994 |
| CNN's odd juxtaposition |
The Boston Globe |
June 16, 1994 |
| Why Are Jews Liberals? |
Commentary |
September 2009 |
|
Book Reviews |
| Book Title |
Publication |
Date |
|
Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship
by Meir Y. Soloveichik |
Commentary |
October 2023 |
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
by Samuel G. Freedman |
Azure |
Winter 2002 |
Kaddish
by Leon Wieseltier |
Azure |
Autumn 1999 |
|
|
