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Faith Moves More Than Mountains: How the Church of Latter-day Saints Inspired a Tech Revolution by T. Riggs Eckelberry

27 Mar 2020
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WRN Guest

In tech circles, we tend to hand out to others the books that impress us. I once did that with a book called Focus, buying over 100 copies for a company that really needed to focus! (They didn’t listen,...

Religious News From Around the Web March 2, 2020

02 Mar 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

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...

Politics, Religion and the Principled Life

26 Feb 2020
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Sam Field

“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...

Russia Blacklists Hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses

19 Feb 2020
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Sam Field

Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has relegated more than 200 Jehovah’s Witnesses to its List of ‘Persons Involved in Extremism or Terrorism,’ according to Jehovah’s...

Is Iran the Eternal Enemy of the West? By L. Arik Greenberg, Ph.D.

14 Feb 2020
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WRN Guest

I grew up in the 1970s, when the U.S. first had overtly negative dealings with Iran. In 1953, we had helped to topple the democratically elected Mosaddegh administration, installing a puppet government...

How Does Your Congregation Grow?

12 Feb 2020
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Sam Field

The news seems ominous. Studies show Christianity on the ropes in Europe and on the decline in the United States. Church buildings going on the real estate markets, while Americans drift away from a spiritual...

Religious News from Around the Web, Feb 9th 2020

10 Feb 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Coronavirus, Church and State, Romney and White Horse, 200 Years of Christianity, Baxter Black, Blessing of the Nukes, Chinese Ban Funerals Christians Help in Coronavirus Hot Zone Christians in Wuhan,...

Religious News from Around the Web, Feb 3rd 2020

03 Feb 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Iran vs. Religion, Mass Wedding, Same-Sex Adoption, Religious School Funding, Christians Released, Should Churches Report Child Abuse? William Barr Warns of Militant Secularism, Catholic Schools in Trouble 80...

How a Priest Made Kobe Bryant’s Life Better

29 Jan 2020
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Nathan Glover

In 2016, WRN published a story about how Kobe Bryant's faith helped him withstand and move past difficult times personally and professionally. We reprise this story now in memory of one of the truly great...

Religious News from Around the Web, Jan 27th 2020

28 Jan 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Indian Women Unite vs CAA, Falun Gong, Holocaust Property, Rohingya Ruling, Lutherans Pack 10 Million Meals, Religious School Funding India’s CAA Unites Religions India’s Citizenship Amendment...