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October 2023

October 22, 2023
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) often was asked if he believed in God....
October 19, 2023
What is Jesus mythicism? In general, it's a proposal that Jesus Christ is entirely fictional...
October 12, 2023
A horrific new war involving Israel and Gaza evokes the old subject of war and...
October 09, 2023
Very old history has a way of keeping its grip on current events. Now some...

September 2023

September 28, 2023
Mes Aynak is a desolate place located about 25 miles, or 40 kilometers, southeast of...
September 20, 2023
Nalanda was the first residential university in human history. It also was one of the...
September 18, 2023
What's the deal with prayers before football games? I don't know when it became the...
September 03, 2023
On Friday night, September 1, 2023, an event happened that will be a footnote in...

August 2023

August 25, 2023
The discovery of a long-hidden library in a cave near Dunhuang, China, was one of...
August 20, 2023
Last month, the state of Oklahoma approved the first religious charter school in the nation....
August 07, 2023
Sri Lanka's Festival of the Tooth is possibly the oldest Buddhist festival in Asia. Indeed,...

July 2023

July 28, 2023
What is the meaning of faith? In particular, what is the meaning of the word...
July 17, 2023
What does the word religion mean? I often hear that Buddhism is not a religion,...
July 12, 2023
I recently moved, and this morning while unpacking a box of books I came across...
July 03, 2023
Child labor is making a comeback in the U.S.  Several states are passing laws to...

June 2023

June 18, 2023
Juneteenth -- June 19 -- is an official holiday now, commemorating the ending of slavery...
June 18, 2023
The Temperance movement was one of the most long-lasting and influential religious/social activist movements in...
June 16, 2023
The giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, were destroyed in March 2001 on orders of...
June 09, 2023
The first Buddhist same-sex wedding (that we know of) took place in about 1970 in...
June 08, 2023
Pat Robertson died today, June 8, in his home at the age of 93. He's...
June 04, 2023
A long overlooked document has shed a bit of new light on the life of...

May 2023

May 25, 2023
Tina Turner (1939-2023) was a force of nature, and her music touched countless people. She...
May 22, 2023
New discoveries promise new insight into the ancient Maya civilization and its religion. Archeologists have...
May 18, 2023
The Emerald Buddha is the most sacred object in Thailand. It is the nation's palladium,...
May 17, 2023
The King and I, the classic musical by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, premiered on Broadway...
May 12, 2023
Buddhism in Egypt? Nearly two millennia ago? Maybe. A statue of the Buddha dating to...
May 08, 2023
What are the origins of dragons? It isn't clear when and where dragons first appeared...
May 03, 2023
Saint George is the patron saint of England, and he is famous for slaying a...
May 02, 2023
King Charles's coronation on May 6 will be a really fancy Anglican Church service, and...

April 2023

April 29, 2023
Agnosticism is a word coined in 1869 by the English biologist T. H. Huxley. And...
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