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Why You Need More Muslim Friends

I can remember when I was scared of Muslims.<br>I don’t think I would have ever uttered those words, but subconsciously, they were true.<br>As a good, Bible-Believing-Evangelical-Christian (that’s all one word, right?) who could recite the two greatest commandments to love God and love others before I

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

6 Tips for Navigating Your Religious Needs at Work

ID Card Benefits for Religious Organizations

Find out how religious organizations and church groups are using ID card technology to help identify church members and keep them more secure.

How Religious Community Is Linked to Human Flourishing

An analysis explores how service attendance relates to health and well-being.

Religious Freedom as Freedom to Discriminate?

Removing religious exemptions will not promote tolerance or inclusiveness. It will forcibly strip religious organizations of their ability to operate as religious organizations.

Sharing community, culture, faith: Study finds religious people are happier

Is having faith in God the key to happiness? A new study seems to suggest so, having found that the happiest people in any society or culture tend to be those with strong religious convictions who actively engage with others in regular community worship.<br>The Pew Research Center looked at data fro

How “Extended Cognition” Can Augment Religious Community Beyond our Experience as Individual...

Your new book Enhancing Christian Life: How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community brings together the disciplines of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. How did you each come to work in this multidisciplinary space and what do you particularly enjoy about the intersections of these disciplines? Teaching at a place like Fuller, one is inclined toward interdisciplinary conversations. We […]

Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

My mother believes she and my father are failures because their children are no longer “in the church.” The oft-recited proverb, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he wi…

From Lent to Ramadan, what religious fasts mean

Religious fasts are not done for dietary or health reasons, but mostly as a means to regain a spiritual connection with God.

What TechSoup Offers Religious Organizations

This article provides an overview of the TechSoup product donations and learning resources that can help your religious nonprofit get the most out of its technology.

Kids learn renovation skills, while serving community

Several religious organizations are teaming up to improve a Mid-South<br>neighborhood, one house at a time. The groups are recruiting local<br>teenagers and businesses to help get the job done.

10 Tips for Creating Inclusive Religious Organizations

We are a stronger country when religious organizations of all faiths live up to our values -- when we are welcoming, diverse, moral, and respect one anot...

No Time For Crime: Study Finds More Religious Communities Have Lower Rates Of Black, White and...

Can religion help reduce violent crime?<br>Some new research suggests the answer is yes, both by creating a moral climate that fosters respect among neig...

Is it Religious Freedom or Just Religious Opinion?

We don't need any more “religious freedom” laws, but we could certainly use more graciously religious people. Instead of laws, we need more people of faith, free enough from prejudice and arrogance and condescension, to be able to express convictions with compassion – not just with passion.

Why Religious Cops Live Longer Than Non-Religious Cops

Most of us serving as police officers have considered our mortality, especially in light of the dangers we face every day. No one is guaranteed a long life, but everyone strives to lengthen the days and years we get to spend with family and friends. All of us are interested in living longer. Recent studies […]

How Religious Are You?

Pew Research has developed a typology of religion based on "how religious" a person is, along with the nature of that religious belief.

How Religious Are The World Religions?

How religious are the world religions? Most “religions” do not conceive themselves as doctrinal systems.

What is Religious Liberty?

The Baptist Joint Committee advocates a “golden rule” of religious liberty: Do not ask government to promote your religion if you don’t want government to promote somebody else’s religion; and do not permit government to hinder somebody else’s religion if you don’t want government to hinder your own religion.

Is yoga religious?

Many outsiders to contemporary popularized yoga profoundly trivialize it by reducing it to a mere commodity of global market capitalism and to impotent borrowings from or “rebrandings” of traditional, authentic religious products. In other words, according to this account, popularized yoga can be reduced to mere commodities meant to fulfill utilitarian needs or meet hedonistic desires.