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: RNS (RNS) On the anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dozens of faith leaders are calling for the U.S. presidential candidates to include a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scientists held firm to their belief that they’d find gravitational waves from deep space. By Matt Emerson Source: Wall Street Journal From 1.3 billion light years away, the universe has […]
Source: The Washington Post John Kevin Wood says his daughter’s school has banned him from campus for more than a year, illegally punishing him for raising objections to classroom lessons […]
Source: The Guardian Mike McKillen was delighted to have his granddaughter’s help in digging the garden. But as a small creature wriggled out of the damp earth, the retired science […]
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: 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: CNN Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, speaking about the need to overcome fear through faith, just one day after making a historic visit […]
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — French secularism, or laïcité, treats religion as a dirty little secret, and manifests itself as a restriction of public prayer or the open expression of religious identity A policeman stands guard as a digger destroys a church at a migrant camp in Calais on 1 […]
theguardian: by Alison Moodie — Religious discrimination claims in the US have doubled since 2001. Should businesses take more steps to ensure every employee feels valued? Samanth Elauf stands with her mother outside the US Supreme Court in Washington in February 2015. Elauf was denied a sales job at an […]
Source: ABC News Ted Cruz sometimes sounds more like a preacher than a presidential candidate. But one biblical tenet he rarely evokes is tithing, a mandate that 10 percent of possessions be donated to God. That’s because tax records Cruz released between 2006 and 2010 show he and his […]
Source: Pew Research Center GOP candidates seen as religious – except for Trump The conventional wisdom in American politics has long been that someone who is not religious cannot be elected president of the United States. Most Americans have consistently said that it is important to them that the president […]
Source: Religious News Service (RNS) On the growing list of ways the “outsiders” election of 2016 is upsetting conventional political wisdom, here’s a new entry: A contender’s lack of strong […]
Source: The New York Times KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Hillary Clinton is Methodist, but she rarely talks about her faith on the campaign trail. On Monday, at a town-hall-style event in […]
Source: Salt Lake Tribune By ROBERT KIRBY | Tribune Columnist What if you could learn whether the religion you follow is true simply by pushing a button? No more need for faith. Now you could actually know instead of just believing that you do. Would you push the button? Even […]
Source: The economist YOGA has been in the news a lot recently. As colleagues have written, the establishment of International Yoga Day, celebrated for the first time last Sunday was […]
Source: Magic Valley BOISE • A bill challenging Idaho’s exemptions for faith healers whose children are injured or die could have a better shot at a hearing this year. “If […]
Source: Pew Research Center God is frequently invoked in American public life. Indeed, there is no shortage of instances of official acknowledgement of the divine, from the appearance of “In God We Trust” on our currency to the phrase “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. To be sure, […]