A Sunday Digression on Religious Literacy
From Slate, a year of Blogging the Bible by David Plotz, comes to an end. It all starts here.
And not a minute too soon to cure our national Biblical Illiteracy as reported by this Sunday's Book Review of Religious Literacy, described as "Stephen Prothero’s jeremiad about declining religious knowledge."
How does this relate to conflict resolution?
Read the headlines lately?
For an anthropologist on Mars look at reading the Bible, check out Julia Sweeney's hilarious and touching Letting Go of God. And for a modern and deeply felt re-interpretation of the story of Cain and Abel, listen to Am I My Brother's Keeper, also a This American Life classic, by Jonathan Goldstein.
And finally, for a set of compelling audio programs on religion and dispute resolution, click here.
