Americans No Longer Believe the Bible to be Literal Word of God
Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God Source: Gallup Story Highlights 24% believe Bible is literal word of God, the lowest in Gallup’s 40-year trend View of […]
A Bible and a cell: a new life for Jakarta’s high-flying Christian governor
Source: Reuters By Ed Davies | JAKARTA Jakarta’s once hugely popular governor is being held in a simple room at a high-security detention centre, his only comforts a Bible and […]
Who are Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Source: The Conversation The Russian Supreme Court recently sanctioned Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist group. This ruling criminalizes Jehovah’s Witnesses who express their beliefs and allows the Russian government to […]
Reading the Quran and the Bible Literally Means Demons and Jinns Will Rule Humans
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Jesus had taken seven demons out of Mary Magdalene, according to the Gospels. (Luke 8:2) Have you […]
Book Review: Jesus before the Gospels
Jesus before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior Author of the book: Prof. Bart Ehrman Book Review by David Chivers, who […]
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Book by Prof. Bart Ehrman Book review from Amazon The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral […]
Explaining Misinterpretations of the Holy Text to a Christian Audience
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This is modified version of a speech by me in St. Paul Church in Endicott, NY. “No […]
The Atheists Struggling to Find Therapists in the Bible Belt
Source: The Atlantic By ANGELA ALMEIDA In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, life in the town of Easley, South Carolina, was tense for Leigh Drexler. Pick-up trucks with airborne […]
Bible and rocks thrown through doors of Colorado mosque
Source: CNN By Azadeh Ansari, CNN Officials with the Islamic Center of Fort Collins said the footage shows a man throwing several large rocks and the Bible into the mosque. […]
History Channel Video: Bible Secrets Revealed – Lost in Translation
Source: History channel The Bible is one of the most influential and important books ever written and is considered by millions around the world to be the actual word of […]
Actually, that’s not in the Bible
Source: CNN (CNN)NFL legend Mike Ditka was giving a news conference one day after being fired as the coach of the Chicago Bears when he decided to quote the Bible. […]
Religions Must Speak To the Faithless, As Well As To Each Other
Source: Economist By Erasmus Learning from a Christian-Muslim debate on religious literacy YOU may find this reassuring, or disturbing, or something in between. Earlier this week, one of the most […]
A look at the snake-handling churches of Appalachia
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The fundamentalists who would read the scripture literally and show concrete thinking are not unique to Christianity. […]
A Message of Compassion and Love from the Holy Bible
Epigraph: “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I have […]
Father and son accused of rape want ‘only law book that truly matters’ at their trial: The Bible
Source: The Washington Post By Kristine Guerra A father and son accused of raping a teenage girl over a three-year period and keeping her shackled in a basement have made […]
Mother sues to stop Bible classes in West Virginia schools
Source: Associated Press By MICHAEL VIRTANEN MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A kindergartner’s mother sued her public school system in West Virginia, saying a 75-year practice of putting kids in Bible […]
Isis persecution of Christians not justified by Prophet Mohammed’s teachings, says study
The Independent: The persecution of Christians in the so-called Islamic State is not justified by Prophet Mohammed’s writings, according to research. The study into the works of the Muslim prophet written between 622 and 632 AD indicates Christians living within the “ummah” – Arabic for community – were protected and defended. More:
Religion News: New hotels won’t carry religious books
Source: Sun Times The world’s largest hotel company will no longer place Bibles or the Book of Mormon in rooms of its newly constructed and to-be constructed hotels. In its […]
Here’s the Bible verse Tim Kaine used to condemn Donald Trump
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Using just nine words from the Bible, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine condemned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments that he wanted to […]
Is The Original New Testament Lost? A Dialogue with Dr. Bart Ehrman & Dr. Daniel Wallace
A dialogue from 2012 An evening of scholarly dialogue on the origins, the transmission, and the reliability of the New Testament. Do we have the original manuscripts? Can we trust […]
