Christy C. Dellinger

(RNS) — “The past is never dead. It didn't even pass,” William Faulkner once joked. The Mississippi writer was right — at least when it came to the Civil War, anyway. A war that divided America as it unfolded continues to do so in her…

As abortion restrictions become law in states across the country, faculty and staff in some of those states face increasing limits on what they can say about reproductive health. In some cases, the vagueness of untested laws coupled with…

So, let me jot down a story of two in the East Tennessee media who spotted crucial facts of faith about this calm and steady quarterback and incorporated them into a grassroots sports page – the feature pre-match rituals. The title at…

Matriprasad completed his studies at the Sri Aurobindo International Center for Education in 1975 and then joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. Currently, he assists the Ashram administrators in their administrative…

Yuvan Mathias Shunmugam is the youngest doctoral graduate from the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria.The 25 year recearned her doctorate in Religious Studies at the spring 2022 graduation ceremony.He…

Eat cultured meat without killing. Part Three: Hindus? Jains? Hindu food. Will meat grown without killing be attractive to Hindus? Jains? In this series of Patheos articles on public theology, we began by asking ourselves in…

Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time, a demographic milestone for a state that was designed a century ago to have a permanent Protestant majority.The results of the 2021 census released on Thursday showed…

(Getty/Andrii Lutsyk/Ascent Xmedia) MMost progressive liberals are aware of the dangers of borrowing from racially marginalized communities. My students are no exception. They quickly identify and condemn forms of…

The small gallery on the first floor of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art is flooded with multicolored light. It darkens the room as a whole but has the effect of making the atmosphere more vibrant. The gallery becomes a place…

Ebenezer Baptist Church held a special church service to commemorate the 95th birthday of the oldest…

LGBTQ+ students at Yeshiva University (YU) wanted their own organization, the YU Pride Alliance. Like all bands with common interests, they wanted to celebrate their commonalities, offer each other support and encouragement,…

DOWNLOAD TEST QUESTIONS DOCUMENT: UPSC CSE MAINS 2022 MAINS UPSC GENERAL STUDY DOCUMENT - 1 MAINS 2022 GENERAL STUDIESPAPER – 1 1. How would you explain that the sculptures of medieval Indian temples represent the social life of that time?…

APPOINTMENT: Bishop David J. Bonnar of the Diocese of Youngstown has appointed the Most Reverend John-Michael Lavelle as Director of Stewardship and Development,…

By Andrew Chung(Reuters) - Yeshiva University cannot ban an LGBT student club after the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a judge's ruling ordering the New York Jewish school to officially recognize the group.The judges, in…

SyFy Season 2 chucky The series just released a new trailer, and it looks like Chucky's reign of terror is about to continue against the backdrop of a religious correctional school. chucky premiered on October 15, 2021 and followed!-->!-->!-->…

Mysore/Mysore: Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) Vice President of Educational Institutions D. Surendra Kumar said that a memorial for the Jain Queen Rani Chennabhairadevi will be built at the upcoming theme park near Karwar, the…

NEWARK — Dozens of flights at Newark Liberty International Airport were delayed Sunday due to reports of a suspicious package, according to reports.Around 1 p.m., the official EWR Twitter account said Levels 1 and 2 of Terminal C had been…

Karen Armstrong has planned another deep dive into the spaces between the known and the unknown with humanity and its host planet. His writing career has been defined by compressing endless, unknowable subjects into numbers of readable…

MIDDLEBURG - The path to inspiration can often be as winding as the journey of a lifetime. For one local…

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that on the basis of complaints of irregularities, the EOW raided the residence of the Chairman of the Education Church Board of North India,…

LAWRENCE - The importance of knowing what's going on in your neighborhood and defending its honor is at least as old as comparable societal expectations in the 17eof the Netherlands of the last century, according to a new book by a…

Louise Melling is associate legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.Emboldened by the United States Supreme Court, today's religious right is pushing in courts nationwide for what amounts to an absolute right to discriminate.…

Celebrating the dragon boat festival at an intangible cultural heritage exhibition park in Tajik Autonomous County of Taxkorgan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, June 25, 2020. /Xinhua…

Rev. Renáta Szommer, newly ordained Minister of Scientology Budapest Church of Scientology A newly ordained Hungarian Scientology minister shares how Scientology has helped her improve…

When I bought the book, I had no intention of reading it. It was an act of solidarity, I said to myself at 18. Surely there was a bit of a challenge, a dig at my prep school, mixed up too.The Wheeler School used to encourage seniors to…

RReligion is a socio-cultural system of behaviors, beliefs, practices, moral worldviews, texts, prophecies, ethics, hallowed places, rituals and designated organizations, which connects humanity to supernatural, transcendental and spiritual…

Christian nationalists scare me.Do they scare you?They should.Who are these people and what is their movement?Christian nationalism "is the belief that the American nation is defined by Christianity and that the government should take…

Dad's Belgian wafflesSt. John's Lutheran Church, 2801 Jackson St., will host its Dad's Belgian Waffle Breakfast from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 10. Tickets can be purchased online…

In the richest country in the world, millions of people still live in poverty. In 2020, according to usafacts.org, 11.4% of Americans live in poverty. And, as census.gov reports, that…

A new visitor to our ward recently told me, “I read your thirty-nine articles and was disappointed. It sounds like a basic Christian statement of faith. A basic statement of Christian faith. Exactly. The thirty-nine articles of religion…

August 29, 2022 2 minute read Source/Disclosures Published by: Disclosures: The authors report no relevant financial information. ADD A SUBJECT TO EMAIL ALERTS Receive an…

BAGHDAD (AP) — A hugely influential Shia cleric announced he would step down from Iraqi politics on Monday and his angry supporters stormed the government palace in response, raising fears violence could erupt in a country already in the…

By Michel Sincere 5 Tips from the “Financial Feminist”: “Stop spending money on things you don't care about. » By the age of 25, Tori Dunlap had saved $100,000 and used the money to start a business,…

The Gujarat High Court, in an order dated August 23, granted bail to eight defendants of religious conversion in the Amod district of Bharuch. The court also barred them from entering Bharuch until the testimony of the first informant was…

THE number of pupils taking religious studies at GCSEs in England and Wales this year rose by 0.6% to 253,225 - in contrast to the decline in the number of people taking the subject at A level (News , August 18). But activists say the…

Recently, the National Population Commission (NPC) said that the 2023 Population and Housing Census will not ask about religion and ethnicity. The Commission's director of public affairs, Isiaka Yahaya, noted in a statement that…

Next November, the Quebec Court of Appeal will hear the appeal of Hak v. Attorney General of Quebec on the constitutionality of Bill 21, which prohibits public service workers from wearing religious symbols.…

The First Amendment to our Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment…

Bishop Kaigama said religious leaders must be “terribly” worried about the political situation in the country as “bad politics and bad governance” have led to the suffering of young Nigerians. "Due to bad politics and…

Top stories of the week on paganism and Shintoism: UK: Cornwall's Christian leaders oppose Earth Goddess statue 7,000-year-old 'Spanish Stonehenge' emerges as water levels drop Japan: Flaming figures of Kyoto bonfire ritual burn…

Mumbai: Veteran TV actress Nupur Alankar gave up showbiz for the life of a sanyasi in the Himalayas. Spirituality fascinated her for years, and she finally had a sense of detachment after confinement. She says she has no duties or…

Over 16% of female Muslim students obtained their Transfer Certificate (TC) in the second, third, fourth and fifth semesters of government and aided colleges affiliated with Mangalore University in Karnataka, Deccan Herald reports. This…

On March 1, the Chinese government enacted sweeping restrictions on religious communication, teaching, and evangelistic efforts conducted online. Now, only religious groups with government approval can carry out such activities. Various…

At the end of the 17e century, the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said: “The first question that should be asked is: 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' » Leibniz turned to this question to prove the existence of God. His…

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Religious schools are not required to follow new Title IX rules on sexual orientation and gender identity in order to receive federal funding for meals, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday.The big picture: The USDA announced…

Guest columnist Elizabeth "Lizzy" Cole is student body president and a rising senior at Baldwin Wallace University, where she studies mild/moderate educational needs while pursuing a minor in psychology. Operating on a platform of…

Gold is one of the go-to materials in jewelry if you want it to stay with you for a very long time. But for it to become a heritage piece, the design has to stand out, not just now but in future generations - and that's exactly what…

The Church of Almighty God is the most persecuted religious movement in China. Its members who are in South Korea should not be deported there.by Bitter WinterAn artistic depiction of the persecution of The Church of Almighty God in…

Placeholder while loading article actionsImam Mohamed Magid, executive religious director of a mosque in Northern Virginia and a leader in interfaith relations, has been appointed to the US Commission on International Religious…

The mysterious death of a high school athlete who spent days helping fellow Eastern Kentucky people clean up historic flooding has added another layer of grief to the tragedy.On Wednesday, Aaron "Mick" Crawford was counted as the 38th…

Soldiers from the Burundian contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia march on the Al Shabab-held town of Ragaele in Somalia's Hiraan region on September 30. AMISOM photo. Original public domain image from Flickr!-->…

Professor Ebenezer Obadare It is not uncommon for religion to receive all the attention in the run-up to next year's presidential election in Nigeria. For better or worse, Nigerians take religion very seriously, and the often…

The book in the Cambridge Elements series may one day be remembered as the first "Scientology Studies 2.0" textbook.by Massimo IntrovignéThe cover of Westbrook's new book.Cambridge Elements was launched by Cambridge University Press in 2019…

Kindy DeLong, Religion Professor and Associate Dean of Seaver College, poses on Pepperdine's main campus. De Long, who is a Seaver ('87) alumna, said God led her to teach Bible Scripture as a career. Photo courtesy of Pepperdine…

Aug. 03 (THEWILL) - All Progressives Congress (APC) Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kashim Shettima has assured Nigerians that the government of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will be fair to all regardless of tribal…

BRIDGEPORT — A California-based nonprofit that promotes civic engagement has awarded its first student award to a group of middle school students who successfully convinced the school district to recognize a Muslim holiday. The…

In April 1955, I sat in the back row of the fifth grade classroom in Flint, Michigan and watched my classmates walk forward, roll up their sleeves, and prepare for their shot. The Salk vaccine had been…

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said on Saturday "there are a few people who in the name of religion or any other belief system resort to violence and create mistrust between different communities." Speaking at an interfaith meeting in…

When we talk about religious beliefs, the language we use often sorts people into rigid, binary groups. You are either a theist or an atheist. A believer or a non-believer. But take a closer look at how people conceptualize God and the…

Holly Ross and Michael Cooper as Jessica and Jason, with Tyrone puppet. Photo: Eva Schroeder Theater / “Hand to God” by Robert Askins, directed by Jarrad West. To the ACT Hub, Kingston until August 13. Review by SIMONE…

With hindsight, Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz doubts that his visit to Auschwitz at the age of 12 was appropriate for his age. On the other hand, his childhood visit to Poland, which included the stop in the extermination camp, set the…

Republican Senator Tim Scott's life story, a new book by Tony and Lauren Dungy and other titles will be released from religion and spirituality publishers in August.nonfiction1st of AugustShame and the Gospel: Transforming Our View of…

Credit: flickr/suelenpessoa I remember sitting in my car one day, pondering the question, "Why do I keep struggling with lingering shame?" » I have read a lot about shame, whether from a psychological, social, theological or…

David Matthews recently sat down for an interview with SiriusXMit is Ari Fink at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. The two discussed a range of topics from politics and religion to the Dave Matthews Band's…

Eid al-Adha celebration a first for East End; "happiness has arrived", says the imam Imam Ahmed Essam Ibrahim traveled to the village of Southampton from St. James for a public Eid al-Adha celebration with the Islamic Center of the…

Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of expanding the conversation about how public policy affects the daily lives of people across our state. Laurel Burchfield is…

Legal action would be taken against him, police said. (Representative)Ghaziabad: A woman has accused a man of having sex with her for months without marrying her and hiding the fact that he was Muslim, local police said on…

These are the book covers of "Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science and Making Sense of Things" by Peter Manseau and Andrew Ali Aghapour; and "Finding God in the Universe" by Guy Consolmagno. The books are edited by…

The National Population Commission (NPC) said the 2023 population and housing census would not ask about religion and ethnicity. The commission said the decision was made after wide consultation with stakeholders, taking into…

"Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things" by Peter Manseau and Andrew Ali Aghapour. Smithsonian Books (Washington, 2022). 160 pages, $29.95. “Finding God in the Universe” by Guy Consolmagno. Fortress Books…

By Timothy Walch • Catholic News Service • Published July 15, 2022 "Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things" by Peter Manseau and Andrew Ali Aghapour. Smithsonian Books (Washington, 2022).…

On the evening of July 15, 2016, the “Fethullahist Terrorist Organization” (FETO) launched a bloody coup attempt against the people and government of my country. Their goal was to establish a radical fundamentalist regime, loyal only to…

The Engi Shozan, literally "Mountain Stories of Origin" is a Shugendo document dating from the 12th century. This document forms the basis of a documentary film created by two sisters, Carina and Sandra Roth, one of the few documentaries…

Comment this storyCommentORLANDO, Fla. — The University of Central Florida has removed anti-racism statements from departmental websites, a move a professor has decried as an "attack on academic freedom" following the passage of legislation…

Robert Weiner WASHINGTON, DC, USA, July 13, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Former White House spokesman Robert Weiner and political…

It should be noted that three justices of the Supreme Court of the United States appointed to this Court by Donald J. Trump prioritize the freedom of religion to discriminate against others on people's freedom not to be…

COMMENTI feared the worst when my usually reliable patient didn't respond to my emails. No, not the worst, because suicide is definitely the worst, and suicide was very low on my differential, given that individual's unwavering will to…

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The Chief Imam of the Calabar Central Mosque, Kabir Olowolayemo, said the current insecurity in Nigeria could be curbed if citizens respected the religions of others. Mr Olowolayemo said this in commemoration of the…

Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church The church, at the Shoppes at Exit 24, 205 Fern Valley Road, Suite Z, Phoenix, will hold Vespers services at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 9 and Tuesday, July!-->…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Family dinners, changing diapers and helping your teen through a tough time are all part of parenthood. Gregory and Lisa Popcak see it as a Catholic cult. Husband and wife counselors, who provide family and marriage…

Rabbi Evan Susman Rabbi Susman to Host Alternative Shabbat Services, Offer Pastoral Care and More Boca Raton, FL – B'nai Torah Congregation, the largest conservative synagogue in Southeast Florida, today announced that Rabbi…

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India - Tension reigns in Udaipur, a former city of man-made lakes in India's northwest desert state of Rajasthan, after two Muslims were arrested for the brutal murder of a Hindu tailor last week . Kanhaiyalal Teli was…

Taliban members attend the press conference on a new hijab command by Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada in Kabul, Afghanistan May 7, 2022. An assembly of religious leaders from…

Ahead of the official announcement of the vice-president position of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the party said it would prioritize skill over religion or tribe. The party had temporarily submitted an incumbent name as…

Earlier this week, a police case was filed in Karnataka that an underage Muslim boy returning from the madrassa was assaulted by two men "of another religion" who abused him and ripped his clothes off. The allegation was reported in the…

Pancham Dham Trust revives the glory of Sanatana Dharma, paving the way for dialogue between the Hindu and Buddha religions in Cambodia. In the history of the world, there is no evidence found so far of such collaboration. This will also…

As Virginians grapple with the implications of the repeal of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court, some local religious leaders affirm their personal positions on abortion, reflecting a diversity of views among…

"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," the candidate said at a meeting of Protestant ministers in Houston. "I don't speak for my church on public affairs, and the church doesn't speak for…

The blood of Arab citizens has become cheap in the eyes of Arab leaders, and images of Palestinians murdered at the hands of the criminal Israeli occupation forces fill television screens, but we do nothing. This is why bloodshed across…

This week, the Ninth Circuit is addressing a religion-based challenge to a federal land transfer and considering whether public sector employees can get refunds of mandatory union dues since ruled unconstitutional. APACHE STRONGHOLD c.…

Photo courtesy www.naranggopichand.com He had an unshakeable belief in the trinity of “language, culture and literature”. True, he had inherited a belief system from his ancestors and, as his last rites showed, he was…

Is the rise of no accelerating equally across all generational cohorts, or is it occurring only among the youngest Americans? The answer is a bit nuanced. The graph above visualizes the share of no votes in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2021…

JOB SUMMARY: The Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor is an experienced Technical Specialist and part of the Technical Unit team within International Medical Corps. This position will provide technical leadership and support in the…

Mukti Patel first visited India during his gap year after high school. Born in Canada and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Patel was eager to see the country where her parents grew up. The trip included a visit to his parents' home…

Fred Stella, the Pracharak (minister of outreach) of the West Michigan Hindu Temple, responds: “Speaking as someone who was raised in one tradition but adopted another later in life, I encourage anyone on a spiritual search to…

As a society, we need a finer distinction between psychiatric illnesses and behavioral problems caused by trauma.While obviously not all traumatized people end up committing a crime, it is an underestimated fact that most ex-prisoners in…

Actor Sai Pallavi said on Saturday that his recent remarks drawing a comparison between the genocide of Kashmiri pundits in the 1990s and recent mob lynching incidents were taken out of context.The 30-year-old actress is currently in the…

Design and implementation of the studyThis study was based on a large community cross-sectional survey, Liberia Demographic Health Survey (LDHS), conducted from October 16, 2019 to February 12, 2020 in Liberia. The 2019-2020 EDD used a…