A very important question has been asked on the On Faith blog, which is sponsored by the Washington Post and Newsweek. For those unfamiliar with the blog, it generally asks a controversial question relating to faith and gets several academics and religious leaders and others to respond. The responses are not always very long, but they are often quite interesting and from vastly different perspectives. This week the topic is:

Next week PBS will air a series on “the Jewish Americans.” We know what “Jewish identity” has meant in the past. What will it mean in the future? How does a minority religion retain its roots and embrace change?

So far the question has garnered responses from N.T. Wright, Arun Gandhi (who responds by talking about “Israel and the culture of violence”), Susan Jacoby, Jonathan D. Sarna, Willis E. Elliott, and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite (the president of Chicago Theological Seminary). They will probably get some more respondents to the question, which tend to trickle in through the week. Intriguing and worth a gander.