Dr. James L. Rowell received his PhD in religion at the University of Pittsburgh and has been a full-time teacher of world religions at Flagler College since 2006. He is the author of Making Sense of the Sacred, a book about comparative world religion, and also Gandhi and Bin Laden: Religion at the Extremes. His interests in comparative religious ethics focus on such figures as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Reinhold Niebuhr, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. His website can be found at https://www.meaningofreligion.com. He also has a YouTube Channel titled Meaning of Religion.
Aung San Suu Kyi won a Nobel Peace Prize before, shockingly, declining to condemn genocide in her own nation. What happened?
James RowellSeptember 14, 2023
What was the vision Gandhi had for a post-British India?
James RowellAugust 29, 2023
China’s invasion and annexation of Tibet in 1950 has too long been a forgotten episode of history
James RowellAugust 15, 2023
Thomas Paine was an inspiration to the founders and still has lessons for today
James RowellAugust 8, 2023
We must always foster a love that has a capacity for forgiveness with a vigilance to observe and enforce the law.
James RowellJuly 11, 2023
When the variable spirit of human justice stands against the relative constant of greed and power, sadly it is the latter that often wins
James RowellJuly 10, 2023
There is a fundamental ambiguity in the ability of humans to both good and evil
James RowellJuly 6, 2023
Tolkien and Lucas have tales of myth, but they have been so popular because their themes resonate so clearly with real life.
James RowellJune 2, 2023
The systemic problems in nations like Iraq and Afghanistan offer lessons to Americans about our own nation
James RowellMay 23, 2023
Balancing the scales of liberty and equality is both a free-market and a Christian concern.
James RowellMay 15, 2023