R eligion in America is more complex, difficult to describe and varied than anyone imagined. At least that’s what most people have concluded from the recently released second part of a huge survey of the American religious landscape by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
I’m home after eight months in rural Spain. My welcoming? A slight case of culture shock. At first, symptoms included thinking I recognized every American I saw, including half of the Philadelphia airport population and the car hop at Sonic.
Recently I was asked to read a book before its publication and offer a promotional comment. The author, eager to downplay differences among world religions because they seem to threaten world peace, assumed that I would like his emphasis on the universal truths God has embedded in all faiths.
The national president of the Christian Science Church and former editor of The Christian Science Monitor died of apparent natural causes in a Kansas City hotel on Sunday.
SYDNEY, Australia | Pope Benedict XVI ended his visit to Australia on Monday by meeting with victims of sexual abuse inflicted by Roman Catholic clergy.
Recently I was asked to read a book before its publication and offer a promotional comment. The author, eager to downplay differences among world religions because they seem to threaten world peace, assumed that I would like his emphasis on the universal truths God has embedded in all faiths.
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Rick Scarborough of Vision America is on a Christian mission in Johnson County, but he isn’t there to save souls.
I’m home after eight months in rural Spain. My welcoming? A slight case of culture shock. At first, symptoms included thinking I recognized every American I saw, including half of the Philadelphia airport population and the car hop at Sonic.
H eather Rosema is the kind of Christian voter that Sen. Barack Obama covets. Rosema, 41, chose George W. Bush in 2000, when she put greater emphasis on issues such as abortion and gay marriage. This year she intends to vote Obama.
