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

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


clock icon 21 Jul 2021
author icon 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...

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Finding Hope in Dark Times by Margaret Dulaney

Finding Hope in Dark Times by Margaret Dulaney


clock icon 04 Nov 2020
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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...

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Remembering a Better World By Blair Thomas

Remembering a Better World By Blair Thomas


clock icon 14 Oct 2020
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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...

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

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


clock icon 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...

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Political and Religious Holograms

Political and Religious Holograms


clock icon 02 Sep 2020
author icon 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...

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Religious News From Around the Web August 31, 2020

Religious News From Around the Web August 31, 2020


clock icon 31 Aug 2020
author icon 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...

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QAnon – a New Religion or the Latest Stupidity?

QAnon – a New Religion or the Latest Stupidity?


clock icon 19 Aug 2020
author icon 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...

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Religious Liberty Under Attack and into Focus By Charles Franklin

Religious Liberty Under Attack and into Focus By Charles Franklin


clock icon 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...

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Blasphemy a Capital Offense in Some Countries, Expunged in Others

Blasphemy a Capital Offense in Some Countries, Expunged in Others


clock icon 17 Jun 2020
author icon 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...

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

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


clock icon 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...

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