4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (544+ words) (ANALYSIS) Say the word “Vegas,” and most travelers think about the 30-plus casinos and resorts along the 4.2-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard known as the Strip. The Southern Baptist “City Missionary” for Las Vegas thinks about a different set…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1085+ words) WACO, Texas – If you saw Dr. Charles Ramsey’s warm smile today, you wouldn’t guess he had lived a perilous life. He is a university chaplain at Baylor University, serving as a spiritual or pastoral resource for students, faculty and the…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (541+ words) (ANALYSIS) In 1843, Karl Marx called religion “the opium of the people.” He framed faith as a cheap chemical cheat code used by the ruling class to keep peasants from running riot. Marx envisioned a future in which human beings would…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (483+ words) (ANALYSIS) Twenty-five years is a long time. For New York, it’s enough time for a new generation to grow up knowing Sept. 11 only as history. It is enough time for neighborhoods to change, buildings to rise, children to become parents…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1037+ words) (ANALYSIS) Elected officials across Texas are increasingly treating ordinary Muslim religious practice — prayer, dress, marriage counseling, even mosques themselves — as evidence of a political threat and saying so openly. “I won’t rest until every Muslim is gone,” Bo French, the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (852+ words) (ANALYSIS) Nearly two months after students launched protests against Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged medical entrance exam paper leaks, the minister resigned. During the demonstrations, the movement reflected the spirit of India’s interfaith commitment as people from different…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1014+ words) PARBATIPUR, Bangladesh — Buddhism is experiencing a revival in northern Bangladesh as thousands of Indigenous Oraon people have embraced the faith since the mid-1990s. Relics found in the region suggest that Buddhism was once a widely practiced religion here. In the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (350+ words) Most practicing Jews in the United States fall into one of three categories. 

 There are the Orthodox Jews, who are committed to following Jewish law to the letter and who uphold all the traditions set by rabbis over the centuries....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (506+ words) (REVIEW) At Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., where I teach history, we begin each class with a verse of the day to encourage students and give them a grounding, reorienting start to the morning. I am also struck by…...