Looking for love is a lot like fishing. Where you fish, what kind of bait you use, what you throw back and what you keep, all have relevance. Fish in a swamp, catch a swamp dweller – a python or alligator,...
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So far, the United States has done a rather good job at including Muslims into society, and at differentiating the vast majority of followers of Muhammad from the lunatic fringe who sow chaos and tragedy....
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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 which you speak it? Are you that body by which people identify...
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10 Jan 2020
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 themselves, and nations at war with themselves,...
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The top 10 religious stories of 2019 – as selected by members of the Religion News Association – included: The burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the massacre of 51 worshippers at a New Zealand Mosque,...
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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 were priests, the Diagnostic and Statistical...
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Over the last couple of years, I’ve heard the phrase “The war on Christmas” invoked more and more frequently. Often, it comes from the mouths of conservative media commentators, but more often it comes...
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There is much to dislike about the secular holiday season. In many cases, gifting now has the burden of obligation, of a required ritual, a duty discharged with little thought through an online catalog...
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Editor’s Note: Most Americans know little or nothing about the Kurds, except perhaps that recently, the United States and Kurds were allied in the fight against ISIS. An estimated 25 to 40 million Kurds...
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Some people have taken religious liberty for granted. After all, it’s protected in the First Amendment, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and legislation such as the Religious Freedom Restoration...
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