Source: RNS (RNS) If the now eight-member Supreme Court sticks to its schedule and hears oral arguments on March 23 in the lawsuit that Priests for Life (and six other consolidated […]
CBC Information Morning broadcasting live from Ummah Mosque The program will focus on the Muslim community, which consists of more than 25,000 people in Halifax. It’s one of the fastest […]
By Noha Medhat A startling new study of the Christian and Islamic texts has revealed that violence and anger are more common in the Old and New Testaments than in […]
Source: Business Insider No religion is unified. How Catholicism, for example, is practiced in rural Italy differs from the way this is done, say, in New York city. Language, culture, […]
Source: Brain Blogger BY Shaheen E Lakhan, MD, PhD, MEd, MS | February 15, 2016 National Geographic Channel will shortly air “Brain Games: The God Brain” (premiering Sunday, February 21 at […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Hindus around the world are wondering whether Sri Srinivasan — the name atop many a list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees — will be the first Hindu to serve on the high court. The India-born Srinivasan put his hand on the Hindu holy book, the […]
Source: The Guardian The Church of England has said a tweet it posted sending prayers for secularist Richard Dawkins after he had a stroke was genuine. On Friday, the Church […]
Source: The Guardian Blood and organ donation is a Christian duty and congregations should be encouraged to act, a motion to a three-day general assembly of the Church of England […]
Source: Salon If the vague, yet oft-touted, religiosity of presidential wannabes remains a factor in elections these days, there may be a good historical explanation for why that is, beyond […]
Source: The National Interest A meme is gaining traction within American government and media, and it goes like this: The conflicts of the Middle East aren’t about religion. Jihadist violence? […]
Source: Slate What with New Hampshire primaries and Zika scares and Syria deals, you might have missed that it was also a big week for “religious liberty.” In West Virginia, […]
Source: Harvard Gazette Harvard Divinity School senior lecturer Diane Moore has modest goals for her upcoming online course, “World Religions Through Their Scripture.” She merely wants to increase religious understanding, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Swami Tyagananda Monk. Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston. Hindu chaplain at Harvard and MIT. Latest book, “Walking the Walk: A Manual of Karma Yoga” (2013) People can be […]
Source: arstechnica The level of altruism that humans display is an anomaly in the animal world. Most species don’t interact peacefully with strangers every day or build large, stable societies […]
Source: RNS INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the largest children’s museum in the world, may be a place for fun, but it has also addressed difficult subjects, including […]
Source: The Daily Beast A shady legal organization claims that NASA employees were censored when their worship group mentioned Jesus in a newsletter. Did NASA ban the word “Jesus” as […]
Source: Pew Research Centre Most Americans say religion doesn’t cause violence, but rather that violent people use religion to justify their actions Half of Americans say the next president should be careful not to criticize Islam as a whole when speaking about Islamic extremists, while four-in-ten want the next president […]
Source: Religion News Service UPDATE: Waris Ahluwalia boarded a flight from Mexico City to New York on Wednesday morning (Feb. 10) after Aeromexico officials agreed to better train their employees […]
Source: Prospect A survey carried out in 2014 found that most people in Britain think that religion does more harm than good. Only a quarter think the opposite. But is […]
Source: The Tennessean A Texas expert on religion in public school textbooks waded into Tennessee’s ongoing discussion about how to appropriately teach world religions, specifically Islam, during a Tuesday night forum. […]