Faith Commons

Your Faith Belongs in Public Schools

by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Senate Bill 763 uses our tax dollars to reinforce dangerous White Christian Nationalist ideology. The consequences to students on matters of moral dispute such as contraception, […]

This Land Is Whose Land?

by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Every country is unique. And each may even make its own claim to being exceptional. But challenges we face in America are mirrored in challenges we […]

Do As I Say, Not As I Do?

by Rabbi Nancy Kasten In his press release following the Texas State Senate’s passage of bills requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom and allowing school […]

Thinking and praying about gun violence

The direction of healing is toward one another by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Governor Greg Abbott makes it clear he will never reduce access to guns. Even after recent high-profile brutal […]

[Podcasts]: On Redemption & Renewal

Interviews with Rabbi Elana Zelony, Dr. Curtis W. Freeman, and Imam Omar Suleiman On the Good God podcast, we just wrapped a three-part series on redemption and renewal—an idea inspired by […]