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.
If the Pope's followers want to make a home for other people who don't much care for gays and believe that women should be treated differently from men, they may want to reach out to the Taliban.
Last week, in part two of our introduction to Kabbalah, we suggested that in Jewish mystical theology, "God does not exist -- God is existence itself."
Like a sandcastle basilica facing an incoming tide, the Catholic Church is facing a sea of secularism, and the Pope is using his mitered shovel to dig a futile moat.
The Anglicans that the Vatican probably comes into the most (perhaps sole) contact with seem to wish they were Roman Catholic.
The disturbing, persistent vein of religious fanaticism and corruption existed in this country long before those interminable dog days of George W., as these film titles indicate.
The problem for the working scientist is that the essence of science is a self-conscious and mandatory objectivity -- which means dogma and doctrine are essentially antithetical.
Dr. Dawkins is one of what I call the Bishops of Atheism, people spreading the gospel of non-god. To him anyone who believes in God is delusional.
Benedict says disenfranchised rappers and Anglicans should feel at home in the Catholic Church given its unwavering stance on women and homosexuality.
Only in the western mind does the existence of deity contradict science, and truth be told, not even there. There is nothing in western scientific thought that denies deity.
We know her as Blossom, that spunky adolescent on that eponymous sitcom. But since the series ended in 1995, Mayim Bialik, now 33, has truly blossomed.
Are our morals dictated to us by a supreme entity, or do discoveries made by science and reason make Atheism a natural conclusion? You decide.
One of the main concerns people of faith will be lifting up this year is the need for health care legislation that assures real reform of our broken and inadequate child health system.
When we give our individual insights the weight of revelation, we don't allow much room for different or conflicting insights, let alone the chance to have a debate about them.
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