The 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre falls on April 20, and April 16 marks two years since the devastating shooting at Virginia Tech, which claimed the lives of 32 people. That remains the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in United States history. But a series of eight gun attacks in March [...]
The arrival of Holy Week, which begins with Palm Sunday on April 5, and Passover, which starts at sundown on Wednesday, April 8, is an occasion to reflect on the inextricable bonds between Judaism and Christianity. But recent events have also shown once again how fraught this relationship can be, despite decades of successful dialogue.
Monday’s announcement that Bernard d’Espagnat, a French physicist and philosopher of science, has been awarded the 2009 Templeton Prize highlights once again the long-running debate over the relationship between faith and science. D’Espagnat has theorized that quantum physics could provide insights into alternate spiritual realities. He has said that recent discoveries in the field may [...]
The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) was released Monday, March 9, 2009, and it reveals tectonic shifts in the religious terrain that can provide a bounty of stories for religion reporters in every region of the country. ARIS 2008 follows previous large-scale identification surveys in 1990 and 2001, and thus offers a rare comparative [...]
Federal funding decision left to Congress: During the presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama pledged that one of his priorities would be to lift the nearly eight-year ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
The Supreme Court ruled today in the closely-watched Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, allowing city officials to choose which monuments could be placed in a public park. Read the New York Times article, which notes that the justices considered this a free speech case more than a case based on church-state issues; See ReligionLink’s guide [...]
And the winner is …! The 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony is this Sunday, and as always there are plenty of religious issues to provide a substantive backdrop to the red-carpet glam. Films have long grappled with questions of ultimate meaning, and this year’s crop is no exception.
The world’s youngest monotheistic religion is the Bahá’í Faith. It’s small – around 5 million-plus believers – but global and growing. The Bahá’í Faith has spread widely since its origin in Iran, then known as Persia, in 1844, and is today the world’s second most widely dispersed religion (after Christianity), practiced in more than 200 countries.
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