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Stuart Murdoch Has Experienced Faith
Stuart Murdoch with his latest album with Belle & Sebastian, A Bit of Previous, has got people talking about his complicated relationship with Christianity, Buddhism and…
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Religious Liberty in a New Land
In 1630, the Puritans, arriving from the Old World, came to America seeking religious liberty, but the Americas had known the Christian religion for decades—and it…
Issues
Twitter Turns Bitter as “Chief Twit” Musk Rolls Out the Welcome Mat for Hate
Within hours of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as self-anointed “Chief Twit” with promises of a platform that would be “warm and welcoming to all” and…
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As Belief in God and Church Membership Go Down, Spiritual Practices and Community Engagement Go Up—Does This Signal a New Chapter in the World’s Approach to Faith?
Belief in God has dipped again. In the latest Gallup Poll, the American belief in an omnipotent, omnipresent deity dipped to 81%, down six percentage points…
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Your Best Investment in Mental Health: Religion?
A new survey by Springtide Research Institute indicates that the best remedy for the current post-COVID mental health crisis in youth may lie not in psychology…
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Greetings, 8 Billionth Earthling!
Somewhere, sometime on the 15th of November 2022, someone was born whose entrance on the scene pushed mankind over the threshold of 8 billion souls occupying…
Wicca
The Gifts of Wicca
The faith of Wicca—more familiarly known as Witchcraft—has origins pre-dating the Abrahamic religions, some tracing it back to as early as 25,000 B.C.E. It encompasses those…
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Dolly Parton Is An Angel
9-year-old Talia Hill was too busy sipping her hot chocolate to notice the vehicle barreling toward her when suddenly a pair of arms swooped her up…
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John P. Meier United History and Faith and Brought Forth Ecumenical Understanding
OK, so a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, a Muslim and an agnostic are locked in a basement… No, it’s not the beginning of a joke.…
Islam
Houses of Worship: Qatar State Grand Mosque
Qatar sits on a peninsula in the Persian Gulf with Saudi Arabia to the west as their only neighboring country. Over the past 30 years, Qatar’s…
Islam
Religious Intolerance in Myanmar
Along the Bay of Bengal and wrapping around the Andaman Sea is the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. It is home to 54 million, with…
Islam
The Fight of the Hazaras
The Hazaras have been subject to discrimination and oppression at least since the 19th century. As an ethnic minority within Afghanistan whose population largely belongs to…