via Tish Harrison Warren: Eboo Patel wants to tell a better story about religion in America. Patel, an American Muslim and founder and president of Interfaith America, a Chicago-based nonprofit that aims to promote cooperation across religious differences, served on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships and has written five books, including… Read More Why Organized Religion Is Important for American Society

Tish Harrison Warren writes: People like me, who hold to what the Roman Catholic cardinal Joseph Bernardin called a “consistent ethic of life” and what the Catholic activist Eileen Egan referred to as “the seamless garment” of life don’t have a clear political home. A “whole life” ethic entails a commitment to life “from womb… Read More Can the Whole Life Approach Break Our Political Stalemate?

Amber and David Lapp write: We’ve spent the past decade living in a working-class town in southwestern Ohio, initially on a short-term research project and then settling in as citizens, neighbors, and friends—so that is the vantage from which we understand America. For this memo we talked with 14 of our neighbors about the American… Read More 6 Themes from Working Class People in Ohio