Source: Time By David Johnson Fifty years after TIME posed the question Is God Dead? on the cover of the magazine, Americans’ belief in a supreme deity appears to be declining. The article, which focused on a group of Christian theologians grappling with the idea of a world without an active […]
Source: Washington Post By Jeffrey Rediger When I went to see “Miracles from Heaven,” I saw more laughter, crying and applause than I’ve ever seen in a movie theater. Clearly, this […]
Source: The New York Times CLAREMONT, Calif. — If you are looking for a manicured lawn and a gracious quadrangle — Gothic maybe, or redbrick with shutters on the windows […]
Source: RNS (Reuters) Organizers of the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival have apologized to U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad after a volunteer said she must remove her Muslim headcovering to […]
Source: RNS By Aysha Khan (RNS) Salim Jaffer moved to the U.S. when he was 14 years old. His family, along with the rest of the Indian community, had been expelled from […]
Huff Post: by Kevin Wright – (Kevin Wright currently serves as the Minister of Education at The Riverside Church in the City of New York). A lot of my friends don’t believe in God. I don’t mean “acquaintances” or Facebook friends, but my actual — call you up on a […]
By Ian Mevorach Theologian, minister, ethicist, and activist; co-founder of Common Street Spiritual Center (www.commonstreet.org) Huff post: Islamophobia has been on the rise in the United States ever since 9/11. […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — Make room for wonder, no matter what your beliefs are. Even if you can only stop by it for 10 seconds every day, having a space for quiet reflection in your home is a reminder to check in with yourself. Whether you’re religious, non-religious, or […]
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s state media have criticized celebrities for attending an event in northeastern India with members of the Tibetan government-in-exile, adding to Chinese authorities’ warnings […]
Source: RNS RIO DE JANEIRO (RNS) Dr. Olimpio Moraes is used to being at the center of controversy. He’s been excommunicated twice by Brazil’s Roman Catholic Church for actively supporting […]
Source: University of Cambridge People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on the idea that religious belief is […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Hindus around the world are wondering whether Sri Srinivasan — the name atop many a list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees — will be the first Hindu to serve on the high court. The India-born Srinivasan put his hand on the Hindu holy book, the […]
Source: arstechnica The level of altruism that humans display is an anomaly in the animal world. Most species don’t interact peacefully with strangers every day or build large, stable societies […]
Source: RNS (RNS) This past week, I had the privilege of visiting the Islamic Society of Baltimore, a mosque that serves thousands of Muslim American families, as well as neighbors […]
Source: Sowetan Live New age churches have become healing centres that sell water and oil with promises of curing people of ailments. This was the submission of the commission investigating […]
Source: azcentral Four Phoenix City councilmen are trying to block a group of Satanists from giving the opening prayer at a Feb. 17 council meeting. Followers of the Satanic Temple, […]
Guardian: Contrary to Nick Cohen’s assertion that “civilisation came from the battering that religion took from the Enlightenment”, the initial spin-off of the latter was the horror of the French Revolution. A more positive development of the time was England’s free press, praised by Voltaire. In fact, Christianity has a […]
Source: The Economist A YEAR on from the murderous assault on Charlie Hebdo, an irreverent French weekly, and the vast demonstration on the streets of Paris which followed, is it […]
Source: Religion News Service Spoiler alert: “Star Wars” is an actual American religion. Consider the number of people who saw “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” during its opening weekend. That would be […]
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter can still command people’s attention. His 2009 column on why he quit his church for women’s rights — “Losing my religion […]