Articles by Michael Gerson

Faith or Fanaticism?: A Dialogue on the Problem and Promise of Faith in the Middle East

Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2010)

Michael Gerson, Michael Ostrolenk, Gregory Khalil, Suhail Khan Thursday, 16 September 2010

Religion can reinforce tribal loyalties that lead to hatred and violence, but it also happens to be one of the oldest, deepest, most universal needs of the human soul. The best kind of religious witness is being willing to break a cycle of retribution and to try to establish something different. [FREE]

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