Washigton Post: By Robert A. Burt, Published: April 7 Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly doubts humanity’s worth. We see these misgivings in the book of Genesis, when God decides to kill nearly all […]
GMA News: Lately, there has been no shortage of press coverage on the religiosity of politicians. The current Vice-President Jejomar Binay projects himself as a devotee of the Sacred Heart of Jesus […]
Christians know why Jesus died: He died for our sins. That’s what we’re taught from the earliest days of Sunday school. And we all know how he died: A particularly gruesome form of public execution known as crucifixion. But many Christians are less sure of how it works. How is […]
Daily Telegraph: This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate […]
Source: The Local Over a third of Germans believe in life after death, a new survey revealed on Saturday. Around 36 percent of Germans said that they believed life continued […]
by Morven McLean, swissinfo.ch A light-filled chapel forms the heart of the seminary in Villars-sur-Glâne near Fribourg. Built 30 years ago to hold 40 young men, it currently houses five. […]
Epigraph: And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. (1 Corinthians 15:14) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim […]
Source: the guardian Devoted Catholics in the Philippine province of Pampanga take part in an annual ritual, some letting themselves be nailed to the cross, to commemorate the suffering of Jesus Christ. Thousands of local and foreign tourists come to watch the crucifixions every year. The church in the predominantly […]
Source: onislam CAIRO – The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams believes that hijab is a personal choice for Muslim women that can help them “assert themselves” in communities with different cultures, The Week reported. “She told me how she would wear her veil and yet take part, too, in […]
Huff Post Religion Jesus may not have risen, but an art historian thinks he knows why the apostles believed. Thomas de Wesselow explains what the Shroud of Turin can tell us about the birth of Christianity — and how he came to his conclusions. Perhaps his most startling assertion is […]
Source: Huff Post MABALACAT, Philippines – Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on roads, carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled on Thursday in an annual gory religious ritual as the mainly Catholic Philippines observed near the end of the Lenten season. Many Filipino devotees perform religious […]
Review of Religion has published its March 2012 volume on this theme. Here is the Editorial: The person of Christ is not only important to Christians, but is also significant […]
Russian TV: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church claims that the church is under an information attack, after several scandals broke out in less than a month. Patriarch Kirill […]
Source: Huff Post Usually we know where to look for answers. You know where to go for the weather forecast, and who to call when your car won’t start. If you need to find something more esoteric–who fought the War of the Spanish Succession, or what is the main export […]
The answer is a definite ‘Yes’ and details follow! Original Sin requires that Adam and Eve be the first human couple, so all humans can inherit Original Sin from them, […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has announced it is withdrawing from talks on a new constitution, saying Islamist domination of the drafting body made its participation “pointless”, Egypt’s […]
Source: CNN The author of Revelation hated Rome, but he also scorned another group – a group of people we would call Christians today, Pagels says. There’s a common perception […]
The previous International Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad is explaining scientific possibilities, how Jesus son of Mary could have been conceived without a father.The featured […]
Source: the guardian Whenever modern civilisations contemplate their own mortality, there is one ghost that will invariably rise up from its grave to haunt their imaginings. In February 1776, a few months after the publication of the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon commented […]
Source: Huff Post I have always been spiritually promiscuous, lying down with any God who will have me. This passionate attraction to religion makes no sense. My parents, intellectual Jews, rejected the wrathful Father-God of their ancestors in favor of an eclectic embrace of eastern thought, western esotericism and indigenous […]