San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The nation and the Bay Area in particular are increasingly interreligious places, and more people than ever view other faiths as equal to their own. Yet religion is often seen as a divisive, and many institutions, from prisons to hospitals, are grappling with...
Revenue Source (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
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FoundationforPluralism (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
http://wisdomofreligion.blogspot.com/2008/07/religion-and-oneness-of-god.html Essence of Religion and Oneness of Creator Mike Ghouse Oneness of God is also expressed as oneness of the creation, oneness of the humanity and oneness of the people. The bottom line for the phrases; one God, one family or Vasudeva Kutambam is about peaceful co-existence. It is to embrace all humanity as your own, when you...
Threads from Henry's Web (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
If I went around my neighborhood asking friends and neighbors just what evolutionary biology was all about, then went and found an evolutionary biologist and asked him to defend the comments of all the “evolutionists” in my neighborhood, I think he would be justly annoyed. He would probably tell me that these people didn’t [...]
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Mark C. Modak-Truran (Mississippi College - School of Law) has posted Beyond Theocracy and Secularism (Part I): Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion (Mississippi College Law Review 159, 2007-2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The continued vitality...
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Recently I posted a photograph of a scene in Provence, sent to me by a reader, that gave rise to a discussion of French churches and the uncertainty surrounding their fate. Do we keep them, restore them (even if there are few parishioners), tear them down, recycle them into mosques, or put them to commercial use? Yves Daoudal tells of how one Christian edifice - a Cistercian abbey - has been recycled....
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The passing of Sir John Templeton earlier this month marked the end of the man, but not of his dream. To many in the worlds of religion and science both, Templeton was eccentric at best, misguided at worst. However, his desire to bridge these two great realms of thought was admirable, even if open to argument.
Acton Institute PowerBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Winter issue of Religion & Liberty is now available online. The interview with David W. Miller is titled, “ Theology at Work: Faithful Living in the Marketplace .” Miller is the executive director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale Divinity School, and co-founder and president of the Avodah Institute . Miller brings an unusual “bilingual” perspective to the academic world, having...
Jewish Atheist (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've posted before about the correlation between religious belief and/or attendance with longevity, fewer depressive symptoms, and low blood pressure. At the time, I assumed that religion caused those benefits, and asked, What's an Atheist to Do ? Turns out, I may have jumped the gun on causation. Via Abandoning Eden , a new experiment shows that the presence of a receptor that regulates general serotonin...
Philocrites (Free subscription) | yesterday
At long last, Boston Globe religion reporter Michael Paulson has launched a blog about religion in the Boston area. Two years ago I had noticed that Boston.com had retooled Paulson's April 2005 blog about the selection of a new pope...
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Evolutionary Benefits of Religion
ERE Articles | Electronic Recruitin (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. EEOC has new “guidance and instructions for investigating and analyzing charges alleging discrimination based on religion.” The agency lays out three examples of how discrimination can crop up in the recruiting-hiring-promoting process.
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Religions are poems. They concert our daylight and dreaming mind, our emotions, instinct, breath and native gesture into the only whole thinking: poetry. Nothing's said till it's dreamed out in words and nothing's true that figures in words only. A...
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The EEOC has adopted a new compliance manual for claims involving religious discrimination and accommodation under Title VII. Some of the highlights from the BNA Daily Labor Report (subscription required) explaining different types of religious discrimination in employment: Treating applicants...
Bradley Wright's Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
