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RELIGIOUS LITERACY
The theory of evolution postulates that the many different forms of life all descended from a common ancestor, with the many and diverse genetic detours caused by natural selection, mutation, and other factors.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
And at the end of the concert, she smiled. Women had shivered, men had wept. Reverend James Cleveland, who had brought her to that Church to sing with that choir—his choir—was so moved that he had to stop. He was so embraced, he had to sit down. He sobbed into a napkin.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Are science and spirituality mutually exclusive? Alan Lightman, a physicist who has researched black holes, stellar dynamics and relativistic gravitation theory, no longer thinks so . He went to Cambodia on a foreign aid mission to help the people of a small village build up their infrastructure.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
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 was utterly miserable and felt like I was trapped in a hamster wheel.
TOLERANCE
But all in all, I give this Aladdin high marks for trying to do the right thing, and for being highly entertaining to boot.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Help End Religious Intolerance Wherever You Are Some of the moms I know are total superheroes, and I recently felt compelled to write about them.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
In the weeks prior to the tragic raid, one such demagogue, the notorious convicted felon Rick Ross of the now defunct Cult Awareness Network, appeared on several network news shows and revealed that he had been “briefing” both the FBI and the ATF with his poisonous rhetoric.
RELIGIOUS LITERACY
Artists bring their own special energy to that endeavor and deserve support and encouragement and validation. Here’s to the music makers and the dreamers of dreams, to anyone brave enough to share their creations with the world.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
It is undeniably true that there are terrorists in the world and they are well named: they try to bring about terror, chaos, and fear. They are a tiny minority of the overall population.
TOLERANCE
“Buy me a drink?” That is what the policeman said to my relative after stopping him for speeding on a highway in a Caribbean country. My relative had the tact to be polite, to admit to speeding and to treat the officer with respect.
