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How the Hobby Lobby Decision Affects Us All

02 Jul 2014
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Krista R. Burdine

The Hobby Lobby decision has implications that reach much further than most predict. Reactions run strong in the wake of this week’s Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision, allowing the family owned craft-store...

Don’t Blame Your Health on Genes – This Research Says You Can Boost Your Health with Spirituality

26 Jun 2014
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Keith Wommack

Despite the weirdness that surrounds twins at times, researchers believe that there are important answers to health questions being learned from the genetic study of twins. Are you an identical twin? If...

Buddhism and Meditation: Finding Value in the Journey and the Goal

21 Jun 2014
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Alison Lesley

Jey Ehrenhalt contemplates Buddhism, meditation and path to enlightenment. The best lie Buddhism ever told me. Maybe. by The Mindful Word. “The more we try to control things,” writes mindfulness...

School is not a battleground for religion!

07 Apr 2014
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Babu Gogineni

Jai Shri Raam! I received recently a communication on Facebook that was rather disconcerting – it was typed in large font in Telugu, one of the Dravidian languages of South India. It was shrieking...

Human Rights in Action: Petition and Letter Circulating to Protect Freedom of Religion in Europe

02 Apr 2014
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Margaret Rose Becker

This afternoon I came across a petition online that I could not help but sign—and I strongly urge you to do the same. Sometimes we may take for granted that freedom of religion is a fact for everyone...

United Sects of Islam: A Different Perspective on Unity and Sectarianism

17 Mar 2014
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Ro W

A popular argument employed by atheists (and other like minded people) against people who subscribe to a religion is that religion has split mankind into factions resulting in much violence; therefore...

Stages of Consciousness in a Believer: A Quranist’s Perspective

31 Jan 2014
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Ro W

I believe, we as believers, pass through different stages of consciousness on our journey to God. I have long thought about this, and today I wish to share my journey with all of you. So, it started...

Opinion: Four Misconceptions About Islamic Concepts From a Quranist Perspective

06 Dec 2013
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Ro W

A copy of the Qur'an on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Peace! I just want to share some of my thoughts with you guys on misconceptions about Islam and Allah. First of all,...

Scientology View on Religious Freedom

23 Oct 2013
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Sylvia Stanard

The Church of Scientology and Scientologists have long fought for religious freedom for ourselves as well as others. It could be said that the fight for religious freedom and other human rights is native...

Atheists Wishing to Form a Community are Met with Roadblocks

26 Aug 2013
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Alison Lesley

Atheism is essentially a non-belief in God or any other similar deity. Millions of people consider themselves to be atheists. Despite this disbelief in a deity or Bible doctrines, many atheists seek...