Cambridge MA June 27-30 I was in Orlando Florida for the Seventh International Conference of the World Association of Vedic Studies WAVES This is a meeting of Hindus who meet every second year for a conference that is in part a cultural event in part a confidence-building gathering and in

Sen John McCain has seen his support among Latino voters tank and he needs to do something about it For years the GOP s share of this demographic has been growing and in 2004 George W Bush garnered 44 percent of the Latino vote But recent polls have Obama taking 60 percent of Latinos to McCa

Austen Ivereigh has done a great service by getting beneath the tabloid headlines about gay bishops and same-sex marriage to point out that the underlying difference in the Anglican Communion as found in the recent meeting of dissidents in Jerusalem has to do with the literal interpretation of scr

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has responded to the new traditionalist Anglican network set up by bishops meeting last week in Jerusalem at the so-called Global Anglican Future conference or GAFCON He urges the GAFCON bishops to stop and think about what they are doing A

A front page story in this morning s Washington Post highlights the effects of persistent false rumors about Barack Obama The rumors are spread on the Internet and by word-of-mouth this last still being the most effective means of communication devised by humankind Indeed the story s protago

The British press has been reaching for sacred metaphors to describe Nelson Mandela whose 90th birthday was celebrated with a celebrity-festooned Hyde Park concert in London last Friday night The icon of freedom has acquired Christ-like status in our time On stage he was a beatific presenc

For all the great things the Church of yesteryear achieved it also did some terrible things One of the worst demands it made was that a Catholic who marries a person who is not a Catholic do so at a side altar oratory or in the sacristy of the Church How humiliating this directive was For how l

Just when it looked like the forced departures of the Reverends Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee from the political stage would usher in a modicum of sane religious discussions in the campaign the Reverend James Dobson took to the airwaves yesterday to re-introduce an unhealthy dose of zealotry to th

The news from Jerusalem where 280 orthodox Anglican bishops are meeting before the Lambeth Conference is something of a non-story There are no plans after all for a split or schism Given that the Global Anglican Future conference Gafcon started with just such a prospect on the horizon

As George Bush s poll numbers sink lower than did Nixon s in the middle of the Watergate investigations it is no surprise that most Americans can t wait for next January 20th when either John McCain or Barack Obama will be sworn in as our next president But Americans are not alone The enti