
Religious Literacy
January 24, 2021
International Day of Education: From COVID to Religious Literacy
Truth be told, the intolerance and hate that come from otherness are as old as the human race, and without diminishing the...
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January 24, 2021
Truth be told, the intolerance and hate that come from otherness are as old as the human race, and without diminishing the...
READ MOREReligious Literacy
January 24, 2021
In addition to practical knowledge, the monasteries were also the last refuge for scholarly knowledge. One of the principal...
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January 21, 2021
No finite definitions for the terms “hate speech” and “disinformation” currently exist under international law. Social...
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January 19, 2021
First, the diversity—people from all countries, races, languages, ages and professions. It was fascinating. Individuals...
READ MOREReligious Freedom
January 16, 2021
This day reminds us that the right to believe in what we choose is an inherent human right. Whether you’re a Christian,...
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January 12, 2021
Moving forward, we should do our best to eradicate bias or stigma towards any religion and let our communities, especially...
READ MOREReligious Freedom
January 9, 2021
Enforcing lack of religious dress is intolerant in its own right, and most often happens in democracies. “Europe had the...
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January 7, 2021
A federal judge dismissed a suit by Libby Hilsenrath, a New Jersey mother who claimed that a seventh-grade social studies...
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January 6, 2021
When it comes up in conversation with someone that I’m a Scientologist, I usually say to the person: “…and you’re...
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January 3, 2021
People are catching on to the fact that the real publicity stuntperson is that individual on the sidelines, complaining shrilly,...
READ MOREMedia & Ethics
January 2, 2021
Romano joins the unholy pantheon of scribes who could care less about the real people she’s hurting, as long as she’s...
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December 27, 2020
The “religion” of bigotry—for, make no mistake: it requires a hefty heap of faith to ignore logic and the evidence of...
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December 23, 2020
As the proverb goes, when a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets. Even as we help the millions in a pandemic,...
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December 19, 2020
It is the most plain, by-the-book exercise in bigotry you have ever seen. And it’s also the very definition of persecution,...
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December 17, 2020
If Yahoo’s Taryn Ryder wants to know where to get the best blueberry pie, she will consult someone with a violent berry...
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December 16, 2020
They know what she sees as she peers out that window. She sees into their hearts as only an innocent can see. “In spite...
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December 15, 2020
But something different happened. Neighbors, hearing of the incident on social media, responded in solidarity. Seven-foot-tall...
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December 15, 2020
The designation holds a special significance. According to Gayle Manchin, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious...
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December 9, 2020
Attacks on religions are rarely based on facts. They are the most alarming lies that can be foisted off on those who react...
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December 9, 2020
No one deserves that. Yet the world is full of such conflicts. What can we do about it? Personal justice starts with each...
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December 8, 2020
The philosophy of facing and handling life requires things like responsibility, courage, self-reliance, the ability to reason...
READ MOREReligious Freedom
December 7, 2020
We need to grow up. We need to stop acting like mean girls making fun of our classmates or children fighting over a basketball.
READ MOREReligious Literacy
December 3, 2020
It was the late 1400s in India. Religious fanaticism combined with the caste system to create a culture where the ruling Mughals...
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