by Craig Nash | Feb 22, 2024 | Feature-, News
The Parliament of the World’s Religions (PWR) will host “The Year of Democracy,” an election-year kickoff event today from 12:00-1:30 pm (CST). The online gathering will launch “Focus 24 | Faith, Democracy & Our Common Future: Shaping a Path Forward,” a campaign...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 17, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The Parliament of the World’s Religions convened over 7,000 individuals from multiple faiths this week in Chicago. This year’s theme was “Defending Freedom and Human Rights.” As multiple cultures entered the assembly hall at the opening ceremony, filling the...
by Scott Stearman | Aug 8, 2022 | Opinion
Poet Mary Oliver ends her poem “Daisies” remarking about the “suitability of the field for the daisies and the daisies for the field.” She rightly sees, and celebrates, a kind of symbiotic relationship between the wildflowers and the fields in which they grow. For...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 4, 2022 | Opinion
As Russian bombs continue to drop in Ukraine and over a million refugees cross the borders, faith leaders from around the world gathered in person and virtually at the Church Center for the United Nations to pray and to demand peace. Co-sponsored by the Parliament of...
by Scott Stearman | Sep 2, 2021 | Opinion
Let me assume, dear reader, that you are a person of faith. This faith may be strictly defined (formed in Sunday School, sub-set Baptist, sub-set Baptist “brand,” sub-set longtime member at First Baptist and so forth). Or you may be a seeker; someone who is “spiritual...
