AvatarBoyd WatersAvatarAvatar2 days agoReligious service attendance, mappedAxios - Alex Fitzpatrick, Alice FengVermont (75%), New Hampshire (66%) and Maine (66%) have the highest share of adults who say they never or seldom attend church or religious services, …
AvatarBoyd WatersFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo3 days agoRamadan And Abraham’s Family Of Messengers – OpEdeurasiareview.com - Rabbi Allen S. MallerRamadan this year started at sunset March 10, 2024. A Hadith declares that Ramadan was when the three Abrahamic Religions received their Books of …
AvatarBoyd WatersAvatarAvatar3 days agoGallup poll: More than half of Americans rarely go to churchRNS - Bob SmietanaThe percentage of Americans who never attend services outnumbers those who go every week, according to a new Gallup report. (RNS) — The most popular …
AvatarBoyd WatersAvatarAvatar4 days agoChristians express support for Gaza in traditional Palm Sunday procession in East JerusalemUnited Press International - Adam SchraderMarch 24 (UPI) -- Christians from around the world flocked to East Jerusalem on Sunday to march in a traditional Palm Sunday procession amid Israel's …
AvatarBoyd WatersAvatarAvatarAn 'exvangelical' on loving, leaving and reporting on the culture of Christianityverified_publisherNPR - Tonya MosleyNPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in Kansas City, Mo., in the 1980s and '90s in an evangelical Christian community that taught her to fear God and never question her faith. She was "saved" at age 2, baptized at 8 and raised watching Christian movies and reading Christian books. "The …
AvatarBoyd WatersAvatarAvatarMy calling as a Christian minister: Stand up against evangelical hypocrisyverified_publisherSalon - By Nathaniel MandersonSome time ago, when I was working as a chaplain at a secular university, I had an article published condemning the hypocrisy of evangelical leadership. I was asked to stop writing things like that, or face the potential of losing my job. My answer to that was easy: I'll keep writing what I write, …
AvatarBoyd WatersAvatarAvatarNot All Mormons Are Latter-day SaintsThe Wall Street Journal. - Benjamin E. ParkOn March 5, two denominations that share historic Mormon ties announced a major transaction. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—the world’s largest Mormon group, with some 17 million members, based in Salt Lake City, Utah—spent $192.5 million to purchase properties, artifacts and …
AvatarBoyd WatersAvatarAvatarSt. Patrick Opened a Portal to Purgatory on This Little-Known Irish IslandSmithsonian Magazine - Lanta Davis and Vince ReighardToday, St. Patrick’s name conjures up images of four-leaf clovers, mugs of beer and the color green—all staples of his March 17 feast day. Some St. …
AvatarBoyd WatersFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAre religions simply cults that have gone mainstream?bigthink.com - Jonny ThomsonHow would you feel if your next-door neighbor was in a cult? What if your son or daughter came home to inform you they had joined a “community of …
AvatarBoyd WatersFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIt Sure Seems Like the Courts Have Placed Christianity Above Other Faithsslate.com - By Steve Kennedy“Religious freedom” is having a moment in federal courts. One of the big successful goals of the conservative legal movement was that religious …
AvatarBoyd WatersFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThese Three Secrets Helped Me Overcome the Fear That God Hates Methetaoist.online - Francis EkwunifeThere I was again.I had done it again, and now I hated myself.I didn’t want to face God because I thought he hated me for doing it.So, I drowned in …
AvatarBoyd WatersFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo'An explosion is coming': Hamas warns against Ramadan restrictions on Temple Mountjpost.com - By SAM HALPERN[Our] anger is imminent… and an explosion is coming in response to any restrictions on the entry of Muslims to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of …