We have seen government abandon the First Amendment protections of religious liberty to tell people of faith they must toss out their long-held beliefs on the sanctity of marriage, for example, and condone...
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Scientologists today celebrate Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health published on May 9, 1950. The book, by popular writer L. Ron Hubbard, was an instant success – some 50,000 copies sold immediately...
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27 Mar 2020
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,...
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Recently, I listened to a streaming radio station dedicated to singer-songwriters. Jackson Brown, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell -- all artists I’d enjoyed in my youth, all musicians...
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10 Jan 2020 Wayne Edward Hanson
“If I were the devil,” said newscaster Paul Harvey in a 1965 radio broadcast, “I’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves,...
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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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09 Dec 2019 WRN Editorial Staff
Wisconsin Students Shelter in Mosque During School Attack About 100 high school students sheltered in a mosque across the street from their Oshkosh West High School in Wisconsin when a student stabbed...
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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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Idi Amin “The Butcher of Uganda” seized power in 1971 and until he was ousted in 1979, his regime murdered an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 political dissidents and members of various ethnic groups....
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The word “reincarnation” derives from Latin, literally meaning, “entering the flesh again.” The common definition of reincarnation has been altered from its original meaning. The word...
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Is Spirituality the Fountain of Youth? by T. RIGGS ECKELBERRY
Religious News from around the web October 19, 2020
Remembering a Better World By Blair Thomas
You Don’t Have to be a Supreme Court Justice to See a Thumb on the Scales By Charles Franklin