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Newsweek and the Washington Post have started a new on-line religion forum called “On Faith.”:http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/ It’s worth checking out.
It’s billed as a “conversation on religion” with Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn. Meacham is managing editor of Newsweek and author of the recent “American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers and the Making of a Nation.” Quinn has long been one of the Post’s most celebrated writers.ÂÂ
They’re a formidable duo, no doubt.
It works like this: They ask a question about faith. Then a few people from an all-star “panel of experts”:http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2006/11/all_on_faith_panelists/comments.html weigh in. Then the public can comment.
The question that’s up this morning is this: “If some religious people believe they have a monopoly on truth, then are conversation and common ground possible? If so, what would be the difficulties and benefits of such a conversation?”
Among the panelists answering are Elaine Pagels, who has written several best-selling books about early Christianity, and Imam Zaid Shakir, a prominent American-born Muslim educator working in Hayward, Calif.
It’s good, thought-provoking stuff.
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