Buddhism
Identity and Religion: The War Against the Spirit
Who are you? What is your identity? Are you your name, your family, your car, your bank account, the language you speak or the accent with…
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Buddhism
Religious News From Around the Web, Jan 13th 2020
Giving Machines, Blaine Amendment, Religious Court Cases, Confessional Confidentiality, Taliban Destroyed now Repaired, Jewish and Muslim Women Meet, ERA is Dead Latter-day Saints Giving Machines Raise…
WRN Editorial Staff
Jan 13, 2020
In Their Own Words
If I Were the Devil: The Key to Resolving Religious Conflicts By Wayne Edward Hanson
“If I were the devil,” said newscaster Paul Harvey in a 1965 radio broadcast, “I’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with…
Alexei Danchenkov
Jan 10, 2020
Islam
The Great Religious Wall of China
As many as a million Muslim Uighurs are currently imprisoned in Chinese “re-education camps,” according to new data released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists…
Religion News
Religious News From Around the Web, Jan 6th 2020
Nine Years for Pastor, Armed Church Security? Interfaith Award, Truth or Guns? Sikhs Help in Fires, Evangelicals Polled, Falun Gong “Cult” Chinese Sentence Christian Pastor to…
WRN Editorial Staff
Jan 6, 2020
Books
Book Review: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Because it’s that time of year, I took the opportunity to read a much debated but fascinating book about the historical Jesus, Zealot: The Life and…
Baptist
Top Religious Stories? Is This the Best You Can Do?
The top 10 religious stories of 2019 – as selected by members of the Religion News Association – included: The burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the…
Issues
Religious News From Around the Web, Dec 30th 2019
Amish Eviction, Religious Freedom Violators, Daf Yomi? China Bans Christmas, Church vs. State, Video: Incarceration of Chinese Uighurs, Taoism and Star Wars Michigan County Tries to…
WRN Editorial Staff
Dec 30, 2019
Featured Contributors
Ahmadiyya Muslims: “Love for all Hatred for None” By Asifa Kainat
In today’s world where many people are biased about Islam and Muslims, I want to introduce you to the sect of Islam that I belong to:…
Catholicism
Movie Review: The Two Popes (two reviews)
The Two Popes – Netflix Starring: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce Director: Fernando Meirelles Review By Charlotte Odenson Inspired by true events, this beautifully shot film…
WRN Editorial Staff
Dec 23, 2019
Books
Book Review of “The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom” by Stephen Tomkins
In the United States every child learns the story of the Pilgrims coming to America on the ship “The Mayflower.” However, few of us ever discover…
Opinion
If the World’s Great Religions Pass Away
A few years ago, a number of people noted that psychiatry was becoming somewhat of a state-sponsored religion. In this new religion, science was God, psychiatrists…