Karen Armstrong: ‘We’re just not good at religion’
Source: Financial Times The author on defending Islam, her unconventional family — and why she broke with a convent “I always say”, Karen Armstrong admits with a conspiratorial grin, “that […]
More and more young women are being called to the religious life, after 50 straight years of decline. What on earth is going on?
Behold the Millennial Nuns Source: Huffington Post By Eve Fairban I went to a science magnet high school, graduating in 2001, but in my late 20s, I began to notice […]
AP-North Carolina Poll: Americans rarely seek guidance from clergy
DETROIT (AP) — Timothy Buchanan says he never consults clergy about important decisions, but it’s not for lack of faith: He regularly attends a nondenominational Christian church near his home. […]
PM Trudeau defends religious freedom
By Michael Swan, for The Catholic Register MISSISSAUGA, ONT. — In a campaign-style address, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed to be Canada’s defender of religious freedom July 6 at an […]
‘Love Hormone’ Oxytocin May Enhance Feelings Of Spirituality
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post “Oxytocin appears to be part of the way our bodies support spiritual beliefs.” The same hormone that helps mothers […]
Video: PM Justin Trudeau visited Jalsa Salana Canada 2019
The Ahmadiyya community exemplifies what it really means to be there for our neighbours and have “love for all, hatred for none.” It was great to be back at the […]
Deism: Common between Islam, Christianity and Judaism
Epigraph He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]
NPR Audio: ‘I Couldn’t Continue On’: A Former Jehovah’s Witness On Leaving The Faith
Source: NPR TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. I want to read you the headline of an op-ed in The New York Times that recently caught […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Delivers Sharp Dissent In Supreme Court Cross Case
Source: Huffington Post By Marina Fang Ginsburg, who is Jewish and whose late husband was an Army veteran, disagreed that a 40-foot World War I memorial cross could be considered […]
24 Video lectures: The Great Courses: How Jesus Became God?
Source: The Teaching Company 24 lectures: Year Released: 2014 The early Christian claim that Jesus of Nazareth was God completely changed the course of Western civilization. In fact, without the […]
Thousands of Muslims to ‘pray for Canada’ at Brampton’s biggest mosque on Canada Day
Source: Brampton Guardian The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at of Canada is hosting a large Canada Day event at Brampton’s largest mosque that organizers expect to draw thousands of visitor for a […]
Unwinding the biggest enemies of religion: A conversation with Karen Armstrong
Source: CNA International Edition Source: Mubeen Saadat SINGAPORE: Not politics, not secularism and not even extremism. Religion’s biggest enemies in today’s world are unkindness, selfishness and heedlessness, according to reknowned […]
Muslims Converting to Christianity and How the Muslim Times can Help
WHY MORE MUSLIMS ARE TURNING TO JESUS | OPINION Source: Newsweek By David Garrison, who is Executive Director of Global Gates and author of A Wind in the House of […]
The Serenity Prayer: One of the Best Prayers
The Serenity Prayer is the common name for a prayer written by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr[1][2] (1892–1971). The best-known form is: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to […]
Pope seeks more freedom in theology, dialogue with Islam
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Prophet Muhammad’s Rarely-Known Decree To the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem
By Harut Sassounian For many years, I have heard that there had been written communication between the Prophet Muhammad and the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, but I had not seen […]
Video: Myrium Francois a British Muslim about India and Pakistan Conflict
Epigraph: Whoever causes to get killed an innocent human life is indeed perpetrating a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Suggested Reading A British Convert to Islam: ‘I found Qur’an mother of […]
Dialogue a must to resolve conflicts, head of Saudi-led interfaith dialogue center tells G20 forum
Source: Arab News Religion should be seen as ‘part of solution’, interfaith forum told 84% of world’s population professes a religious faith or tradition, majority of whom are encouraged […]
Professor Emeritus Katharina Mommsen: ‘Goethe – The Muslim’
Collected by Dr. Abdul Alim, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Islam Written by Dr. Katharina Mommsen, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Original year of publication 1967. The original title was […]
Sikh American to be first in Air Force allowed to keep turban and beard on active duty
Source: NBC News “Today, I feel that my country has embraced my Sikh heritage, and I will be forever grateful for this opportunity.” By Doha Madani The United States Air […]