by Craig Nash | Aug 22, 2024 | Feature, News
Migration into the United States makes the country more religious, according to a recent Pew Research analysis on worldwide immigration. Roughly 70% of U.S. citizens embrace religious faith, but 87% of immigrants are part of a faith tradition. The overwhelming...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 20, 2024 | Feature, News
Pew Research Center researches religion and spirituality across the globe. The think tank surveyed people in 102 countries and has announced what they found to be the most religious place in the world. The surveys for each region aimed to measure whether a region was...
by Paul Lewis | Jun 14, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Robert Sellers writes that one thing unites the world’s religions: their ethical teachings. He shows how they share commitments to compassion, the Golden Rule, interdependence and so on. I tend to agree but want to probe further. Is there something that grounds these...
by William Brackney | Feb 22, 2019 | Opinion
Article 25 of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (1948) declared, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate to himself and his family, including food, clothing, medical care and necessary social services.” Decades later, the U.N. Convention on...
by Tim Townsend | Feb 13, 2012 | News
DES PERES, Mo. (RNS) More than 100 Lutherans streamed into the basement classroom at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Des Peres recently for a Bible study called “Islam Through a Lutheran Lens.” It was a better-than-expected showing, and people...