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Religious Freedom Laws Are Shields, Not Swords

Religious Freedom Laws Are Shields, Not Swords

by Doug Berger | On September 28th, a Federal judge in Missouri dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn recent rules requiring employer..

January 29, 2013 with 1 Comment
Religion and Charity: Goodness Transcends Religion

Religion and Charity: Goodness Transcends Religion

Inherent human goodness and charity transcend religion What is the future look of religion in the US? Demographics will drive some of that...

January 3, 2013 with 0 Comments
Violence in the Bible: 15 Bible Verses You Won’t Learn in Sunday School

Violence in the Bible: 15 Bible Verses You Won’t Learn in Sunday School

The Bible and genocide, kidnapping, rape and sexual slavery The following Bible section, Judges 21: 10-25 highlights fifteen action-packed..

November 28, 2012 with 1 Comment
Who Would Jesus Endorse in the 2012 Presidential Election? – Part One

Who Would Jesus Endorse in the 2012 Presidential Election? – Part One

Is Jesus for Romney or Obama? It might be easy to think that Jesus would endorse the most conservative Evangelical Christian in the..

November 6, 2012 with 3 Comments
The Busy Intersection of Religion and Politics

The Busy Intersection of Religion and Politics

The busy intersection of religion and politics is a place where a lot of accidents happen. Most go unreported. Recently I reread the U.S...

October 29, 2012 with 0 Comments
Religious Survey: Polls Need to Catch Up with Modern Religion

Religious Survey: Polls Need to Catch Up with Modern Religion

by Cheryl Peterson | Bearing in mind that statistics are only data — not truth — I analyzed the October 9 Pew religious survey..

October 17, 2012 with 0 Comments
Lesley Hazleton: How to Read the Quran

Lesley Hazleton: How to Read the Quran

With uprisings in so many places in the Muslim world and Americans completely baffled as to why so many people from so many countries could..

September 24, 2012 with 1 Comment
Elections and Religion: God, The Selling Point

Elections and Religion: God, The Selling Point

By Eliza Wood | This is an excerpt from my latest blog post on The Huffington Post religion channel: Whew! It was almost thought that..

September 7, 2012 with 0 Comments
The Time is Now for a More Modern and Peaceful Bible

The Time is Now for a More Modern and Peaceful Bible

Introducing: The Pacific Bible by Eliza Wood | It is an old saying and we all know what it means: “If not now, when?” It is supposed to..

August 28, 2012 with 3 Comments
Is Mormonism a Cult? Demystifying Mormonism in 2012

Is Mormonism a Cult? Demystifying Mormonism in 2012

Mark Silk just wrote a review of Senator Orrin Hatch’s new book: American Mormon Christian: What I Believe.   People are wondering..

August 24, 2012 with 0 Comments

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