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Catholicism
The best voice-over in film history is Ray Liotta’s 16-minute opening to Goodfellas. Understated, earnest, almost reassuring, it entices the viewer into a world of brute force,…
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Sep 1, 2022
Bahá'í Faith
In 1844, a 25-year-old Persian merchant named Sayyed ʿAlí Muḥammad Shírází had a realization. He took on the title of Báb, meaning gateway or door, and…
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Aug 29, 2022
Christianity
And Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” – Mark 12:17 Just before…
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Aug 19, 2022
Featured
Rehabilitation from the tyranny of drugs has a spiritual as well as a physical component, and many faiths, instead of turning their backs on the problem,…
WRN Editorial Staff
Aug 10, 2022
Judaism
Judaism’s great gift to the world, according to essayist John Evans, was the idea of a single, omnipotent, omniscient and righteous God, with whom one could…
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Jul 25, 2022
Features
Salvation, redemption, absolution, deliverance. Any religion focuses one way or another, through one path or another, on the liberation of the individual, and—since so much of…
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Jul 6, 2022
Islam
1.5 to 2 billion of the world’s people identify as Muslim. That means that nearly 1 out of 4 people in the world believe in the…
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Jul 1, 2022
Issues
Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man…
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Jun 16, 2022
Issues
A swastika. A crossed-out Star of David inside a circle. An image of Black people or Muslims or Asian-Americans captioned “Go back where you came from.”…
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Jun 13, 2022
Religion News
According to the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard stipulated that the highest levels of advancement in Scientology should be “delivered in a distraction-free environment, off…
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Jun 6, 2022
Buddhism
Gregory Grieve, who heads the religious studies department at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, holds that the authenticity of digital Buddhist meditation is not the determining…
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Jun 2, 2022
Christianity
For whom do the bells toll? In Appleton, Wisconsin, it’s for the parishioners of Zion Lutheran Church, and it’s thanks to the sturdy hands and generous…
WRN Editorial Staff
May 13, 2022