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 […]
From Faith Commons on Juneteenth: Two different understandings of freedom—Which one fits your faith?
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is taking credit for the portrait of Opal Lee that now hangs on the Texas Senate chamber walls. Simultaneously, he and other leaders in the Texas […]
Rev. Dr. George Mason talks with Dr. Moody on TheMeetingHouse podcast
TheMeetingHouse is a media initiative hosted by Dr Dwight A Moody to promote conversation on religion and American life.
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 […]
Join Faith Commons for a Sacred Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (October 2023)
This fall you are invited to join George and Nancy for an Interfaith tour of the places and events that shape our historic religious attachment to the Holy Land. We […]
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 […]
Despair, Hope, Joy: A message for this holy season.
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten Holy days in all three Abrahamic traditions overlapped in April this year. Jews celebrated Passover by retelling and embodying their redemption from slavery in Egypt at […]
The problem of religious nationalism
by Rev. Dr. George Mason Nancy’s essay this month is a heartrending and painful example of what we try to model through Faith Commons. In that same spirit, it seems […]
Nationalism or terrorism? Let’s get clear.
by Rabbi Nancy Kasten This week Jews across the globe celebrated the holiday of Purim, commemorating the Persian Jewish community’s deliverance from destruction as described in the biblical book of […]