Source: BBC News By Miriam Quick Unlock your potential. Turbocharge your productivity. Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. These are just some of the bombastic guarantees of self-help book titles, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim is to spread fear about Muslims People demonstrate against allowing an Islamic community center near Ground Zero at a rally […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (John Moore/Getty Images) Recent political debates over […]
Source: BBC News A debate continues to rage over police use of force, with officers seeing incidents very differently to civilians. What happens when the two sides are forced to […]
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is “much bigger” and “more powerful” than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s. Mr Trump’s tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear […]
Source: First Things by Mary Eberstadt January 2018 Begin with a sobering fact. During the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that […]
Source: Time By BRIAN MELLEY, TERENCE CHEA / AP (OAKLAND, Calif.) — It wasn’t exactly reefer madness Monday as California launched the first legal retail sales of marijuana, but those who […]
Source: BBC News More than 300 actresses, writers and directors have launched a project to help fight sexual harassment in the film industry and other workplaces. The initiative, which is […]
Source: The Guardian By Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim […]
By REUTERS Updated: December 28, 2017 11:50 PM ET | Originally published: December 29, 2017 President Donald Trump said on Thursday he believes he will be fairly treated in a […]
Source: Reuters GAZA (Reuters) – Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the fourth Friday in a row in protests against U.S. […]
Source: Associated Press By MARTHA BELLISLE SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers with the Department of Justice have asked a federal judge to change his order that partially lifted a Trump administration […]
Source: NPR BY SARAH MCCAMMON Attacks on the press are a hallmark of President Trump’s style, and he has avoided much of the media, often preferring Twitter to sit-down interviews with journalists. But […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Phil Willon Contact Reporter With a sharp crack of the gavel, Preet Didbal made history this month as the first known Sikh woman in the nation […]
Source: NPR By TODD BOOKMAN For New Hampshire residents, the dueling symbols are raising questions about belief, inclusion and the separation of church and state. DAVID GREENE, HOST: On […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to retweet the messages of a far-right and virulently anti-Muslim British activist has provoked condemnation from religious leaders on both sides […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rowaida Abdelaziz “We’re going to burn your mosque down,” a voice said angrily in a voicemail left on the mosque’s phone. “We’re coming to kill you,” […]
Source: The Guardian By Bryan Mealer A few mornings a week, I go running with a priest. We meet at 5.30 under a streetlamp in central Austin and make our way […]
Source: Vox By Helaina Hovitz I wasn’t entirely surprised to hear that my fiancé’s father had announced he would “wear black to mourn our wedding day.” I’ve never met the guy, […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein Funded and founded by evangelicals, the new Museum of the Bible sticks out for something its leaders clearly wanted to emphasize: Jews. The eight-story, […]