06 Mar 2020
Charlotte Odenson
A 25-year-old with thousands of students around the world, Avikrita Vajra Sakya is one of the highest-ranked lamas in Tibetan Buddhism. Born in the U.S. as part of a family that traces its roots to the beginnings...
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Biblical Plague, Give up Phones for Lent?, Minister Farrakhan, Thich Quang Do, SCOTUS to hear Catholic Foster Case, Boko Haram, Coronavirus and Hajj Give up Phones for Lent? Pope Francis suggested...
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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch,” said Benjamin Franklin. Democracies had failed in the past, blown to pieces by demagogues inflaming raging passions, the majority...
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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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Giving Machines, Blaine Amendment, Religious Court Cases, Confessional Confidentiality, Taliban Destroyed now Repaired, Jewish and Muslim Women Meet, ERA is Dead Latter-day Saints Giving Machines Raise...
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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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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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11 Nov 2019 WRN Editorial Staff
Kung Fu Buddhist Nuns The Druk Amitabha Mountain Monastery in Kathmandu has long promoted gender equality and the empowerment of women. Since 2008, Buddhist nuns have been trained there in kung fu for self-defense,...
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While a religiously tolerant Europe slowly slips away from religious belief and observance, the government of China treats religion not as recognition of mankind’s spiritual nature, but as a threat to society,...
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21 Oct 2019 WRN Editorial Staff
Hasidic Jews Find New “Shtetl Market” Shtetl – small Eastern European Jewish villages before the Holocaust – had busy local markets, which Hasidic Jews are recreating on Amazon, becoming buyers...
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What Happened at the Council of Nicaea? by By L. Arik Greenberg
Science and the Soul
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Faith Moves More Than Mountains: How the Church of Latter-day Saints Inspired a Tech Revolution by T. Riggs Eckelberry