3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (544+ words) (ANALYSIS) Say the word “Vegas,” and most travelers think about the 30-plus casinos and resorts along the 4.2-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard known as the Strip. The Southern Baptist “City Missionary” for Las Vegas thinks about a different set…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1085+ words) WACO, Texas – If you saw Dr. Charles Ramsey’s warm smile today, you wouldn’t guess he had lived a perilous life. He is a university chaplain at Baylor University, serving as a spiritual or pastoral resource for students, faculty and the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (541+ words) (ANALYSIS) In 1843, Karl Marx called religion “the opium of the people.” He framed faith as a cheap chemical cheat code used by the ruling class to keep peasants from running riot. Marx envisioned a future in which human beings would…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1014+ words) PARBATIPUR, Bangladesh — Buddhism is experiencing a revival in northern Bangladesh as thousands of Indigenous Oraon people have embraced the faith since the mid-1990s. Relics found in the region suggest that Buddhism was once a widely practiced religion here. In the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (350+ words) Most practicing Jews in the United States fall into one of three categories. 

 There are the Orthodox Jews, who are committed to following Jewish law to the letter and who uphold all the traditions set by rabbis over the centuries....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (506+ words) (REVIEW) At Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., where I teach history, we begin each class with a verse of the day to encourage students and give them a grounding, reorienting start to the morning. I am also struck by…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (539+ words) Under the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797, the U.S. was forced to pay tribute to the Pasha of Tripoli for the return of the captives. After the U.S. navy had increased to six frigates, the U.S. Marines landed “on the shores of Tripoli” (from…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1759+ words) LOS ANGELES — For thousands of years, the Jews have walked. Dispatched by God to the promised land of Canaan, Abraham walked. When the Israelites became a nation in the desert, they camped, kvetched, warred, and worshiped, but mostly walked. And…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (790+ words) When India became independent in 1947, its constitution affirmed a commitment to religious diversity and pluralism as a national ideal. India is one of the world’s most religiously diverse countries. While a majority of its population is Hindu, it is home…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (161+ words) Religion in the United States “works” differently for Asian Americans compared to African Americans. The average white American doesn’t think about religion the same way, or practice their faith in the same patterns, as Hispanic Americans. Race is a central…...