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Agnosticism
“Global Respect Act” Disrespects Religious Liberty; Christians Win in European Court of Human Rights; Chinese Communists “Walk in Footsteps of Taliban”; To Forward a Spiritual Revival?…
Agnosticism
Supreme Court Hears Abortion Case; Will Biden Bill Eliminate Religious Groups from Childhood Care? Why Do Some Christians Reject Vaccines? Religiously “Affiliated” or “Unaffiliated” Too Simplistic;…
Catholicism
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…
Issues
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…
Features
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.…
Issues
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.…
Politics
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,”…
Buddhism
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…
Opinion
QAnon is a conspiracy theory group – some call it an emerging religion – started by a mysterious figure and it is blowing up on social…
Featured Contributors
One might suppose that religious liberty in the United States, would – like granite cliffs – withstand any ocean storm of legal assaults. It is, after…
Opinion
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…
Features
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…