Source: The Washington Post By Donna St. George; August 12, 2010 “True to the aphorism, couples who pray together stay together.” African American couples are more likely than others to […]
Hamaad KhanSCIENCE, MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY 9th January 2022 THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS ©Shutterstock Hamaad Khan, UK Wispy hair, sunken flesh, brittle bones; as we age, we are marked by the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no less than a thousand, half hour wonderful presentations, about positive thinking, hope, optimism […]
Source: Arab News By Nidhal Guessoum, who is a professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He is the author of the recently published “The Young Muslim’s Guide to Modern Science” Now that we have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human moon landing, […]
Source: NPR BY Shankar Vedantam ,Laura Kwerel,Tara Boyle ,Rhaina Cohen,Parth Shah,Lucy Perkins and Jennifer Schmidt Let’s take a moment to go back in time. For most of human history, we […]
Source: Pew Charitable Trust Americans have become less religious but more spiritual over time, with 59 percent saying they regularly feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being. Host […]
Editorial Source: The Muslim Sunrise, the very first Muslim quarterly of North America: The Muslim Sunrise, Spring 2018 volume All the world faiths have spirituality as an essential quality to achieve […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)“Star Wars” has always kept its fingers close to America’s spiritual pulse. In the ’70s and ’80s, the interstellar saga explored Eastern traditions, […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Signs Copies Of “Mycroft Holmes” NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 21: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar promotes his book “Mycroft Holmes” at Barnes & Noble Union Square on September 21, 2015 […]
Source: The Guardian By Daniel José Camacho, who is a Contributing Opinion Writer at Guardian US. His writing has appeared in Christian Century, Religion Dispatches, Sojourners, Duke Magazine, and TIME, […]
Epigraph: It is only in the remembrance of God that the hearts can find comfort. (Al Quran 13:28/29) Source: Macleans By Brian Bethune and Genna Buck Research shows kids raised […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Clare Ansberry Updated June 13, 2017 11:07 a.m. ET Thomas Ramey quit praying a few years ago when he was 16 years old because […]
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella | ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE Pope Francis has voiced serious doubt about the authenticity of alleged continuing apparitions of the Madonna in Medjugorje, a once-obscure […]
Scroll In: Yoga is not a culturally homogenous, all-Hindu, Vedic tradition, as is often portrayed by revivalist demagogues and those who have set up a raucous campaign to reclaim its roots. It is, in fact, a liberal, eclectic tradition that absorbed freely from Buddhist, Jain, even Sufist ascetic practices. Roots […]
Source: Huffington Post Tara Narula, MD O, The Oprah Magazine In modern medicine, doctors don’t usually talk about life’s deeper meaning; that’s a job for the person in the white […]
Source: Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Dr. Christina Puchalski is familiar with death. The palliative care doctor and founder of the George Washington Institute for […]
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 […]
Source: Time By Serene Jones Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is President of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. We need a new common narrative about who we are […]
HuffPost: by Antonia Blumberg — Based on these trends, the future of religion in America probably isn’t a church. Nearly a century after German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche first proclaimed “God is dead,” TIME magazine released a controversial cover on its April 8, 1966 edition with the related provocative question: “Is […]
Source: Religion News Service Spoiler alert: “Star Wars” is an actual American religion. Consider the number of people who saw “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” during its opening weekend. That would be […]