Typhoon in the Philippines: People of faith respond
Faith communities are offering prayers and scrambling to help as the Philippines reels from a typhoon characterized by some climatologists as the most powerful ever to make landfall.
-
-
Shariah hysteria? Calls for banning Islamic law continue
The movement to bar any reference to Islam’s legal code, known as Shariah, from the American judicial system is moving ahead even as it faces legal challenges in the courts.
-
God and gun control: Shootings prompt religious debate
More than 30,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, yet gun control has not emerged as a significant agenda item for faith-based organizations seeking to affect public policy.
-
Assisted-suicide laws advance, but issue still divides Americans
An aging population and the associated end-of-life challenges have combined to keep assisted suicide at the center of the nation’s moral concerns.
-
Faith and mental illness: Churches open up on treatment
For many, faith and psychiatry had long been viewed as mortal enemies. Sigmund Freud famously saw religion as an “illusion” and a “neurosis,” and he described himself as a nonbeliever.
