a review of religion and media
This photo was taken yesterday by Jeremy Walton, assistant professor at NYU’s Religious Studies Program, in downtown Manhattan where various groups gathered to protest a proposed community center or to march in support of it. Continue Reading →
We’ve been wondering what makes the site of the 9/11 attacks “holy ground.” Michael Daly takes this saccharine stab at it in today’s New York Daily News by asserting that tragedy (or seeing shells from foxholes) makes all of us pray in the same way:
Ground Zero is a mosque. It is also a church and a synagogue and a temple and an ashram on ground made holy by those of all faiths who died there.