The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, which helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination.
False divinity is believed in, hoped for and submitted to and is generally orchestrated by organized religious institutions that perpetuate the mystical, magical and mysterious myths.
As President Obama arrives in Tokyo, he finds himself, strangely enough, at the epicenter of the latest in the war of words between Christianity and I...
As I continue my search to catch creative activists in the act of doing good, I checked in with filmmaker Peter Rodger to discuss his new documentary Oh My God.
The "Who is a Jew?" question is a thorny one, which has been bedeviling Israel since it's inception.
Through the Charter, we need to make the compassionate voice of religion a potent force in our troubled world and develop a moral discourse to counter those that speak of hatred and disdain.
HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Joy Behar Show Wednesday night to talk about religion in politics and the controversy surrounding Sarah Pal...
Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.
Would it be appropriate for Jewish and Muslim House members to oppose legislation beneficial to the pork industry or, even more analogous, to insist on a ban on eating pork products altogether?
New York State Senator Rubén Díaz Sr.'s opposition to marriage equality in New York state is just plain stupid, and history must hold him to account.
Without rushing to prejudicial conclusions, after all, we do need to consider the possibility that Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim faith played a major role, if not necessarily the dominant one, in what happened.
It is revealing that 'God' is one of the most extensively used expletives in the multiple languages of our world. It springs unbidden from our deepest hearts, when we're not 'thinking'.
"Mom, come," my son shouts. "A baby bird fell out of the nest!" Sure enough, a fledgling lies on the patio, beak gaped, neck distended, claws curled, a sad thing.
Government's stewardship responsibility is recognized in the body of laws past congresses developed once we realized that burning rivers, poisoned water, and dangerous air were not in the national interest.
Kabbalah enables the "receiving" of more and more of reality, with more and more depth and sensitivity. Let's see how this works, in each of its three streams.
As more and more people mastered New Age terminology, frivolous concepts entered the marketplace -- becoming the opium of choice for escaping the realities of daily life.
Welcome back, dear disciples, for another week of science-inspired Q&A!
Once intelligent design squeezes its way into the pages following evolution in our biology books, we might as well add astrology to our astrophysics lectures and toss some alchemy into the chemistry lab.
America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.
In 2009, the Christian Science Monitor, a 100 year-old news organization, became the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website.
From time to time some religious leader, somewhere, seeking to be provocative, will announce, smugly, that of course all morality comes from religion and therefore atheists, those scum of the Earth, have no morality.
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