May 2022

Virtue, like common sense, is a quality we all think we have in abundance. But what exactly is virtue? For Aristotle, virtue was the habit of both knowing what is good and acting to achieve that good. Interestingly, Aristotle…

An empirical approach to the study of religion and religiosity has yet to take root in Kenya. This is why the study we conducted to explore the association between religious fundamentalism and attitudes towards sexual and gender…

It has been a year since unprecedented violence took place in West Bengal after the announcement of the Assembly election results. Why did Bengal experience violence (both in West Bengal and Bangladesh)? What was the original demographic…

The Liberal Party has wobbled too far to the right in its embrace of religious 'fundamentalists' and will 'die as a party' without serious reform according to a WA Liberal veteran, as parties jostle in the wake of a federal government…

The first sentence of the First Amendment to our Constitution says, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of any religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."I believe that an issue relevant to…

A middle-aged couple who recently showed up at a local progressive church said, “We want to get away from doctrine. Apparently, they had decided that they could no longer bear the literalist Bible teachings of the church…

A middle-aged couple who recently showed up at a local progressive church said, “We want to get away from…

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The face of the Nigerian media turned wistful last week on Thursday when chilling news emerged from its hellish shell that a certain Deborah Samuel Yakubu had been killed for the offense of blasphemy. she committed against the only…

(Photo: Getty/iStock) Forget the Catholic Inquisition, Protestant iconoclasm or the Salem witch hunt -…

Democrats are generally reluctant to discuss religion, let alone debate it.They like to point out that Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were notoriously atheists, Jefferson and dozens of other founding generation figures were deists (a!-->…

For the editor: Reading letters from readers about their abortions and how they affected their lives was heartbreaking.The abortion ban is based on a religious belief that human life begins at conception. However, there is as yet no…

Democrats are generally reluctant to discuss religion, let alone debate it. They like to point out that Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were notoriously atheists, Thomas Jefferson and dozens of other founding…

Democrats are generally reluctant to discuss religion, let alone debate it.They like to point out that Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin were notoriously atheists, Jefferson and dozens of other founding generation figures were deists (a…

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