NYTimes.com 2016/08/11 By MARK SAMETHAUG. 12, 2016 In the 1970s a cousin of mine, Paula Grossman, became one of the first people in America to undergo sex-reassignment surgery. As Paul Monroe Grossman, Cousin Paula had been a beloved music teacher in New Jersey. She was fired after her surgery, and she […]
By Giles Fraser, South London priest. Guardian columnist and Editorial Board. Visiting Professor at the LSE. Guardian: The so-called “masters of suspicion”, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, all thought that religion would […]
Huff Post: Before Bono became the world-famous humanitarian and frontman of the Irish rock band U2, he was Paul David Hewson from Dublin. The son of a Roman Catholic dad and a Protestant mother, Bono grew up during a time of sectarian conflict and witnessed the human cost of militant […]
Source: Pew Research Center Fifty years ago this month, Time magazine published one of its most famous and controversial covers. Splashed in bold red print across a black background was […]
Source: Times By Sohaib Sultan is the Imam and Muslim Life Coordinator in the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University. For a Muslim, asking “Is God Dead?” begs […]
National Geographic Channel went to 22 countries around the world to find out who people think God is. THE STORY OF GOD WITH MORGAN FREEMAN PREMIERES SUNDAY APRIL 3 at […]
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 […]
Economist: A GOOD way to start an argument at a dinner party is to assert that religion divides people and inspires them to evil. There is plenty to support this contention: anti-Muslim pogroms by Hindus in India; the bombings and murders carried out by anti-abortion Christians in America; the long […]
theguardian — Osservatore Romano says cartoon shows sad paradox of world that is increasingly careful to be politically correct yet does not respect believers’ faith The anniversary edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at a printing house near Paris. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images The Vatican’s newspaper on Tuesday […]
theguardian: by Ryan Felton — Larycia Hawkins, a tenured associate professor at Wheaton College, made headlines after wearing headscarf following San Bernardino shooting Wheaton College has taken steps to fire Larycia Hawkins. Photograph: Stacey Wescott/AP A Christian college in suburban Chicago has launched termination proceedings against a tenured professor who […]
Prof Larycia Hawkins, was fired for saying that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Kelly James Clark 29/12/2015 Suppose there is a God who a long, long time ago spoke to Abraham, promising to bless the world through his descendants. Suppose his descendants told their friends who told their […]
Huff Post: by Mirabai Starr — At night on my bed I longed for my only love.I sought him, but did not find him.I must rise and go about the city,the narrow streets and squares, till I findmy only love.I sought him everywherebut I could not find him.(From The Song […]
theguardian: by Brandon G Withrow — Stepping away from a faith isn’t just a belief sea change. It’s also a large loss – of culture, and sometimes family You’ve likely heard the numbers by now. Approximately 23% of Americansare religiously unaffiliated (atheist, agnostic and “nothing in particular”). This demographic is expected […]
Huff Post: by Patrick Vaughn “I learned a long time ago not to use that phrase in an attempt to comfort someone else…But one thing I am confident of, we are not meant to struggle alone…(God means) for us to lean on those who love us to get us through […]
Huff Post: by Patrick Vaughn “I learned a long time ago not to use that phrase in an attempt to comfort someone else…But one thing I am confident of, we are not meant to struggle alone…(God means) for us to lean on those who love us to get us through […]
Huff Post: by Dan Arel — The search for the truth is not easy and can mean being critical of many beliefs. I encourage others to be critical of all religion, but I believe criticism should be based on statements of fact, not biased misinformation, much like the information I […]
Time: If there’s a factory where birds are built, the workers were clearly smoking something the day they designed the hummingbird. And the ostrich. And the toucan. Imagine, too, the pitch meeting for the parrot, (“Let’s make this one talk!”), or the peacock (“So we got this crate of feathers…”). Of […]
Spirit, Science and Metaphysics: by Steven Bankarz — We are becoming literal gods, and we are going to explore some of the hard peer-reviewed scientific evidence to support this claim. In 1000 years from now, we will look like petty cavemen in our current physical and mental state compared to […]
Amazon.com: Editorial Reviews Review “Being a nuclear physicist dealing with basic quantum field theory I find my worldview agreeing with Deepak Chopra. The all-embracing holistic quantum field is a step […]
Review of Religions: Rafi Ahmad – Ph.D – USA There is a raging yet lively debate(1,2,3,4,5,6) going on between atheists and theists over the existence of God – a sign of an […]