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Profiles in Faith: Wilton Cardinal Gregory: First African American Cardinal Advocates for Ethics and Inclusiveness

21 Jul 2021
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Sam Field

Introduction In October 2020, when Pope Francis announced his selection of 13 new cardinals from eight countries as diverse as Rwanda, Chile, Brunei and Mexico, he also accorded the honor to Wilton...

Finding Hope in Dark Times by Margaret Dulaney

04 Nov 2020
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WRN Guest

Many of you might have seen the little film by the Welsh Poet Tom Roberts called the Great Realization. Tom is reading a poem, spoken as a bedtime story, to his two younger siblings. It is written from...

Remembering a Better World By Blair Thomas

14 Oct 2020
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WRN Guest

I remember as a young child of around four years old standing in my front yard and watching a squadron of planes flying in formation overhead. It was a time where heroes of World War II adorned the movie...

Vaccine mandates vs. religious beliefs — the legal arguments for the upcoming coronavirus lawsuits by Ross D. Silverman

09 Sep 2020
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The longer COVID-19 rages on, the more the United States appears to be hanging its hopes on the development and rapid, mass distribution of a vaccine. Getting a safe and effective vaccine out to the public...

Political and Religious Holograms

02 Sep 2020
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Sam Field

Lumpers lump things together and call them the same. Splitters make a point of differentiating things. So while a lumper might say “All women are alike,” a splitter would go to great lengths showing...

Religious News From Around the Web August 31, 2020

31 Aug 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Politics, Religion Confers Immunity from Moral Stupidity, Black Lives Matter Opposed, Xi Ramps Up “Sinicization” of Tibet, In-Person Worship Safe With Precautions, World's largest Buddha Threatened...

QAnon – a New Religion or the Latest Stupidity?

19 Aug 2020
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Sam Field

QAnon is a conspiracy theory group – some call it an emerging religion – started by a mysterious figure and it is blowing up on social media, even getting traction from elected officials. Katelyn...

Religious Liberty Under Attack and into Focus By Charles Franklin

15 Aug 2020
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One might suppose that religious liberty in the United States, would – like granite cliffs – withstand any ocean storm of legal assaults. It is, after all, guaranteed by the First Amendment, the Universal...

Blasphemy a Capital Offense in Some Countries, Expunged in Others

17 Jun 2020
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Sam Field

In 1988 Salmon Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a book which Muslims thought disparaged Islam. Riots broke out in Muslim countries, and shortly thereafter, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued...

You Don’t Have to be a Supreme Court Justice to See a Thumb on the Scales By Charles Franklin

05 Jun 2020
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For those rational individuals who thought that the First Amendment kept government out of religious affairs, assured the people’s right to worship as they chose, and guaranteed the right to “peaceably...