By placing institutional abuse within its larger context, the royal commission has made the prevention and identification of child sex offending a collective responsibility.
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Belief in miracles such as the virgin birth of Jesus are surprisingly persistent – even in the 21st century.
By drawing on common values, faith communities can take a lead in making cities fairer, safer, accessible and affordable for all.
Passionate musicians in Western India are committed to “break down the walls” of hate built by opportunistic politics between religious communities.
Before you reach for that checkbook or give to a charity online, pause to think about what makes a cause good in the first place.
As Americans make decisions about year-end giving, how much of it will be influenced by their faith?
There’s still far too much we don’t know about hate crimes in the US – and that affects how we study and enforce these crimes.
Is the Grail the chalice from the Last Supper – or the Crucifixion? Does it contain the elixir of life? Or is it Mary Magdalene’s womb?
In the shadow of Trump-era cross-border discrimination, an early-stage scholar reflects on the meaning of religious diversity and his act of resistance by boycotting conference travel to the U.S.
Contemporary terrorism is rooted in a form of political violence dating from the French Revolution. It is rooted in social facts and is now evolving on a global scale.
Millennial Canadians are identifying themselves as spiritual, but not religious. This entails the desire to develop inner knowledge and to embody the virtues of compassion, empathy and open-heartedness.
There needs to be an urgent debate on the education of Muslim pupils in British schools, but this seems impossible in the current climate.
Family support, being valued in their own homes and enjoying strong support from their social structures helped instill lesbians in a conservative South African province with a strong sense of self.
Its real purpose is to subsume Judaism and exclude Islam.
Women clergy are still fighting a battle for acceptance in the church.
Three minutes of bland and uncontroversial radio which doesn’t reflect the passion and complexity of religion.
Religions tend to portray God as deeply concerned with humans, yet we seem hugely unimportant in the vast scheme of things.
Many think that violence is central to religion, but some scholars argue it’s meaningless to single out religion rather than socio-economic factors when assessing violent acts.
In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music of the pigs”.
Historical accounts of Martin Luther skew or ignore debates about religion and make him hardly recognizable as a pastor and preacher. But his theology changed Europe.
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