Book Review: Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
Source: Amazon By Dalai Lama “A book that brings people together on the firm grounds of shared values, reminding us why the Dalai Lama is still one of the most […]
Ted Talk: We Can Be Buddhas
Additional Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran A Message of Compassion and Love from the Holy Bible True Fasting: A Message of Compassion and Love from […]
Meditation: All It Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes
Transcription of Ted Talk Translated by Joseph Geni Reviewed by Morton Bast 00:12 We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are […]
Playing the Islamic card ahead of elections, again?: The Jakarta Post
In its editorial, the paper shares its concern over election campaigns building up along sectarian lines, instead of candidate track records. JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – […]
Ted Talk: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the […]
American Poll Favoring Pluralism
Share of Americans who say: ▪️ “If America is too open to people from around the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation” 𝟐𝟔% ▪️ “America’s openness to […]
Sir David Attenborough: Climate change ‘our greatest threat’
Source: BBC News By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Katowice The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said climate change is humanity’s greatest threat in thousands of years. The broadcaster said it […]
In China, Gene-Edited Babies Are the Latest in a String of Ethical Dilemmas
Source: The New York Times By Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen BEIJING — First it was a proposal to transplant a head to a new body. Then it was the world’s first cloned primates. Now […]
Be celibate or leave the priesthood, pope tells gay priests
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who […]
Anger over pork sausages at Germany Islam event
Source: BBC News Germany’s Interior Ministry has said it regrets serving pork sausage at a conference on Islam in Berlin earlier this week. The ministry said the food selection had […]
Sacked vegan claims discrimination in landmark case
Source: BBC News By Clive Coleman A tribunal is to be asked to decide whether veganism is a “philosophical belief” akin to a religion, in a landmark legal action. Jordi […]
Pakistan clerics in blasphemy case to face treason charges
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani minister says the detained Islamic clerics who disrupted daily life with rallies across Pakistan following the acquittal of a Christian woman in […]
Ukraine: Leader pledges church choice for Orthodox faithful
Source: Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has promised the country’s Orthodox Christian faithful they will be free to remain part of the Russian Orthodox Church after the […]
How Hanukkah came to America
Source: The Conversation Hanukkah may be the best known Jewish holiday in the United States. But despite its popularity in the U.S., Hanukkah is ranked one of Judaism’s minor festivals, […]
More than 30,000 Indian-American Sikhs have entered the trucking industry in 2 years
Source: CBS News LARAMIE, Wyoming — Here’s what you might expect to see driving I-80 near Laramie, Wyoming: long stretches of highway framed by rolling hills and trucker after trucker making […]
A storm brews over the formation of a new church in Ukraine
Source: The Economist PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW I (pictured), the “first among equals” in the stormy world of Orthodox Christianity, seemed like a model of composure as he prepared this week for […]
This self-driving hotel room could revolutionize travel
Source: CNN By Sarah Lazarus (CNN) — Question: What do you get if you cross a hotel room with a self-driving vehicle?Answer: The Autonomous Travel Suite (ATS). A hotel room on wheels, the […]
My Evangelical Church Is Gaslighting Me, But I Refuse To Fall For It Anymore
Source: Huffington Post By Elizabeth Baker I don’t sleep through the night anymore. I suffer from near daily panic attacks and almost constant anxiety. The source of my joy, my […]
Sir David Attenborough On Climate Change
“If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon … time is running out,” Sir David […]
Video and Book Review: The Leadership of Muhammad by Prof. John Adair
Epigraph: Indeed, the Messenger of God is an excellent model for those of you who put your hope in God and the Last Day and remember Him often. (Al Quran […]