Eric Garner death inspires an unlikely police experiment
Source: BBC News A debate continues to rage over police use of force, with officers seeing incidents very differently to civilians. What happens when the two sides are forced to […]
Trump to Kim: My nuclear button is ‘bigger and more powerful’
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is “much bigger” and “more powerful” than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s. Mr Trump’s tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear […]
THE ZEALOUS FAITH OF SECULARISM
Source: First Things by Mary Eberstadt January 2018 Begin with a sobering fact. During the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that […]
How America Is Transforming Islam
The Atlantic: Taz Ahmed is 38, single, Muslim, and Bengali. She describes herself as spiritual, but not particularly religious. When she was growing up, her immigrant parents hoped she would marry an I.T. worker they found for her in Oklahoma. “I’m like, ‘I don’t even know who this person is, […]
California Launches First Legal Retail Sales of Marijuana
Source: Time By BRIAN MELLEY, TERENCE CHEA / AP (OAKLAND, Calif.) — It wasn’t exactly reefer madness Monday as California launched the first legal retail sales of marijuana, but those who […]
Time’s Up: Women launch campaign to fight sexual harassment
Source: BBC News More than 300 actresses, writers and directors have launched a project to help fight sexual harassment in the film industry and other workplaces. The initiative, which is […]
Anti-sharia laws proliferate as Trump strikes hostile tone toward Muslims
Source: The Guardian By Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim […]
Pew Research Center: 17 striking findings from 2017
Source: Pew Research Center Abigail Geiger is an associate digital producer and writer for Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center studies a wide array of topics both in the U.S. […]
President Trump Says He Believes Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation Will ‘Be Fair’
By REUTERS Updated: December 28, 2017 11:50 PM ET | Originally published: December 29, 2017 President Donald Trump said on Thursday he believes he will be fairly treated in a […]
Thousands of Palestinians take part in anti-Trump protests
Source: Reuters GAZA (Reuters) – Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the fourth Friday in a row in protests against U.S. […]
Government seeks change to order lifting Trump refugee ban
Source: Associated Press By MARTHA BELLISLE SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers with the Department of Justice have asked a federal judge to change his order that partially lifted a Trump administration […]
Trump Scorns Mainstream News, But Not The Christian Broadcasting Network
Source: NPR BY SARAH MCCAMMON Attacks on the press are a hallmark of President Trump’s style, and he has avoided much of the media, often preferring Twitter to sit-down interviews with journalists. But […]
Meet the nation’s first known Sikh woman to serve as a city mayor
Source: Los Angeles Times By Phil Willon Contact Reporter With a sharp crack of the gavel, Preet Didbal made history this month as the first known Sikh woman in the nation […]
Atheist Flag Will Be Raised Over Ten Commandments Monument
Source: NPR By TODD BOOKMAN For New Hampshire residents, the dueling symbols are raising questions about belief, inclusion and the separation of church and state. DAVID GREENE, HOST: On […]
Trump’s Islamophobic Retweets Widely Condemned By Religious Leaders
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to retweet the messages of a far-right and virulently anti-Muslim British activist has provoked condemnation from religious leaders on both sides […]
Muslims Once Again Are Being Targeted For An Attack They Had Nothing To Do With
Source: Huffington Post By Rowaida Abdelaziz “We’re going to burn your mosque down,” a voice said angrily in a voicemail left on the mosque’s phone. “We’re coming to kill you,” […]
How I became Christian again: my long journey to find faith once more
Source: The Guardian By Bryan Mealer A few mornings a week, I go running with a priest. We meet at 5.30 under a streetlamp in central Austin and make our way […]
My husband’s Orthodox Jewish family pressured us to call off our wedding
Source: Vox By Helaina Hovitz I wasn’t entirely surprised to hear that my fiancé’s father had announced he would “wear black to mourn our wedding day.” I’ve never met the guy, […]
Washington’s huge new Bible museum talks a lot about Jews. So why are some Jews so skeptical?
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein Funded and founded by evangelicals, the new Museum of the Bible sticks out for something its leaders clearly wanted to emphasize: Jews. The eight-story, […]
Barack Obama Warns Against the Divisive Nature of Social Media in Interview with Prince Harry
Source: Time By ELI MEIXLER Former President Barack Obama has warned against some of the perils of social media — in particular, its potential to create social divisions and spread misinformation […]