Religious Freedom
August 3, 2019
Interfaith Courage Awarded at Second Ministerial for Religious Freedom
More than 30 years ago, Ivanir dos Santos began combating racial discrimination and promoting rights of members of minority...
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Religious Freedom
August 3, 2019
Supreme Court Allows Cross to Remain: Did It Establish Religion?
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that a 40-foot-high cross honoring residents of the Maryland town of Bladensburg...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 3, 2019
The Swastika in the Bathroom
You walk into the bathroom and a large, black graffitied swastika greets you. It’s big, it’s ugly and it exudes an almost...
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Religious Literacy
August 1, 2019
Catholicism in the Age of Scandal
Damning headlines and unforgivable scandal have, in recent times, become synonymous in the media with the Catholic Church,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 29, 2019
Is This Who We Really Are?
I, for one, don’t believe it. Don’t get me wrong. I believe the statistics, the surveys and the opinions. I believe the...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 29, 2019
What Happens When You Live?
The late astronomer and teacher, Carl Sagan, requested that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, in its journey through the cosmos, pause...
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Religious Freedom
July 24, 2019
Second Ministerial for Religious Freedom Shines a Light on Intolerance and Genocide
It was a big event: on its final day, a participant reported, “Close to 900 members of civil society and religious groups...
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Religious Literacy
July 24, 2019
Why Religion Is Healthy
Religious people live longer. There’s plenty of scientific evidence to support that statement, and if you click on the link...
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Religious Literacy
July 11, 2019
Three Religions and a Wedding
Guests of many religions were in attendance. We had Jewish relatives from my side, Catholics from my husband's side, Christians...
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Media & Ethics
July 9, 2019
Why I Trust L. Ron Hubbard
Occasionally in the course of a day, I hear disparaging things about people I know and love. I’m sure this has happened...
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Religious Literacy
July 8, 2019
What Happens When You Die?
And the more I studied religions, the more I saw the common thread. They all believed that you are more than your body and...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 4, 2019
The Aftermath of the “Aftermath”
Most people are decent: They are constructive, creative, welcoming and social…
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 1, 2019
Love In the Age of Granfalloons
My Facebook brothers and sisters have become tribes, or more precisely, granfalloons. A granfalloon, as defined by the coiner...
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Religious Literacy
July 1, 2019
The Fingerprint of the Spirit
The theory of evolution postulates that the many different forms of life all descended from a common ancestor, with the many...
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Religious Literacy
June 30, 2019
Aretha’s Soul
And at the end of the concert, she smiled. Women had shivered, men had wept. Reverend James Cleveland, who had brought her...
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Religious Literacy
June 26, 2019
Why are Physicists Convinced of the Human Soul?
Are science and spirituality mutually exclusive? Alan Lightman, a physicist who has researched black holes, stellar dynamics...
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Scientology Religion
June 26, 2019
I Left Scientology as a Teen: Here’s Why I Came Back
In the end, I gave the “live life one day at a time and just do what makes you happy” thing a try. By the age of 23, I...
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Religious Freedom
June 25, 2019
Is Freedom of Religion Limitless?
In the weeks prior to the tragic raid, one such demagogue, the notorious convicted felon Rick Ross of the now defunct Cult...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 25, 2019
Everyday Actions to Combat Bigotry
Help End Religious Intolerance Wherever You Are Some of the moms I know are total superheroes, and I recently felt compelled...
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Religious Literacy
June 22, 2019
Here’s to the Artists
Artists bring their own special energy to that endeavor and deserve support and encouragement and validation. Here’s to...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 20, 2019
Terrorism: Let’s Change the Conversation
It is undeniably true that there are terrorists in the world and they are well named: they try to bring about terror, chaos,...
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Religious Literacy
June 13, 2019
Religion in the Workplace: How Diversity Creates Better Cultures
After I’d been working there for a few days, the CEO called me into his office and said “You know, I really admired the...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
June 12, 2019
Religion vs. Religious Freedom
Would you honor these unbelievers for being religious in an otherwise materialistic world and respect their sincerely held...
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