A Catholic dilemma: Should IVF embryos be adopted?
Source: Crux As more Americans than ever before turn to in vitro fertilization to create families, a surprising ethical question — what to do with thousands of embryos stuck in […]
All pupils at non-faith schools must study atheism, judge rules
Source: Telegraph All non-faith schools will be forced to teach non-religious views following a landmark judgment by the High Court that ruled the Education Secretary unlawfully excluded atheism from a […]
Millennials are less religious than older Americans, but just as spiritual
Source: Pew Research Center By many measures, Millennials are much less likely than their elders to be religious. For instance, only about half of Millennials (adults who were born between 1981 and 1996) say they believe in God with absolute certainty, and only about four-in-ten Millennials say religion is very […]
Seminaries embrace NASA and Darwin to understand God’s mysteries
Source: Deseret News Casey Cole wants to be a priest. That means attending five years of seminary classes, where he studies theology, philosophy and — evolution. “I was not expecting […]
GOD ARE YOU THERE? I GOOGLED YOU.
Source: World Religion News Analysis of Google search data by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz By The New York A NEW YORK TIMES WRITER ANALYZES GOOGLE SEARCH TRENDS RELATED TO RELIGION AND GOD. […]
Jewish publishers seek new models in struggling industry
Source: Religious News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Editors and reporters from North American Jewish newspapers gathered in the U.S. capital this week to try to come up with solutions to the crisis facing their struggling industry. The meeting, which took place at the annual American Jewish Press Association conference Tuesday and […]
What Does the Constitution Say About a Praying High School Football Coach?
Source: Slate High school football coach Joe Kennedy has made national news for refusing to stop praying on the field at the end of games. Last week, Kennedy, a coach […]
Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people
Source: The Guardian Haiti, the saying goes, is “70% Catholic, 30% Protestant, and 100% Vodou”. Vodou is everywhere in the Caribbean nation, a spiritual system infusing everything from medicine and […]
Parents to take on government over religious studies GCSE
Source: The Guardian A group of parents and their children are to go to court to challenge the government’s decision to exclude non-religious world views from the new religious studies […]
Arab-Jewish School An Island Of Unity Amid Violence
Huff Post: JAFFA, Israel — Amid ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis, a school in this city seems more determined than ever to teach Arab and Jewish children about coexistence. […]
Study Shows Non-Religious Kids Are More Altruistic and Generous Than Religious Ones
Source: Time A new study published by Current Biology (hat tip: OregonLive) explores the degree to which religion is linked to children’s generosity to strangers. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours people’s moral judgments and prosocial behavior, the relation between religiosity and morality is a contentious one,” researchers […]
7 facts about atheists
Source: Pew Research Center Estimating the number of atheists in the U.S. is complicated. Some adults who describe themselves as atheists also say they believe in God or a universal spirit. At the same time, some people who identify with a religion (e.g., say they are Protestant, Catholic or Jewish) […]
Pew study: More Americans reject religion, but believers firm in faith
Source: Religious News Service (RNS) Americans as a whole are growing less religious, but those who still consider themselves to belong to a religion are, on average, just as committed to their faiths as they were in the past — in certain respects even more so. The 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, released […]
U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious
pewforum.org: Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, at least by some key measures of what it means to be a religious person. An extensive new survey of more than 35,000 U.S. […]
Interfaith Peace Building Could Be Key in Ending Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Source: Huffington Post Across the globe, diverse people watch with a mixture of sadness, frustration, and even anger as violence once again escalates in Israel. The co-directors of The Abraham […]
Religious Freedom Requires Give as Well as Take
Source: The Huffington Post The always contentious issue of religious freedom appears to be heading back to the Supreme Court. Not that this court can be trusted to make a […]
U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious
Source: Pew Research Center Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, […]
Religious Landscape Study
Source: Pew Research Center Religions Explore religious groups in the U.S. by tradition, family and denomination Christian70.6% Evangelical Protestant25.4% Mainline Protestant14.7% Historically Black Protestant6.5% Catholic20.8% Mormon1.6% Orthodox Christian0.5% Jehovah’s Witness0.8% […]
Washington high school coach placed on leave for praying on field
Source: CNN A Seattle-area assistant high school football coach has been placed on paid leave for continuing to pray on the field after games, weeks after his school district warned […]
Why don’t people see the yeti any more?
Source: BBC News Until recently it was common for people in Bhutan to share stories of their encounters with the Himalayan yeti. But with the arrival of modernity, villagers no […]