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April 2014

April 21, 2014
Here a young Muslim and a young Jew challenge the stereotypes that, as Upworthy (where...
April 20, 2014
Here's a great clip from the PBS News Hour about Pope Francis's decision to canonize...
April 19, 2014
Here's a great five minute animated video explaining how to meditate. It's based on Martin...
April 19, 2014
BBC News has a great map, essay, and even video clips explaining why Jerusalem means...
April 18, 2014
What does dharma mean?  When we study Hinduism in World History, we define dharma as...
April 18, 2014
Here's  an animated feature documentary in which three superheroes of peace use the five Buddhist powers--insight,...
April 17, 2014
Visual.ly has a great visual guide to Islamic veils. I just snagged a few for...
April 16, 2014
Do your students know the religious symbols?  Here's a great site that reviews the major...
April 16, 2014
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April 15, 2014
Studying Hinduism and the popular gods?  Here's a great  graphic showing the symbolism of the...
April 14, 2014
Teaching Judaism?  Do your students know the story of Passover? Or that it's probably the...
April 14, 2014
Studying Buddhism? Here's an interesting NPR story (a few year's old) discussing whether American yoga...
April 13, 2014
Here's a fascinating story students might read about heroism during the Holocaust in the 1940s....
April 12, 2014
Watch how the major religions have spread over the last 500 years. According to the...
April 12, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum  of Art in New York City will open a new exhibition on...
April 11, 2014
Did you know that a 63 year-old Hindu nationalist with a record of stirring up...
April 10, 2014
Jews have a strong heritage in the Middle East and parts of North Africa like...
April 09, 2014
How do the different religions see the Golden Rule? This poster shows you the similarities...
April 08, 2014
Studying Christianity? The BibleGateway is a great resource. You can search the Bible using keywords.and you...
April 07, 2014
Historian and professor of early Christianity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,  Bart...
April 07, 2014
The Pew Research Center for the Religion and Public Life Project compares religious diversity in...
April 06, 2014
The Biblical story of Noah was not the first and certainly not the only flood...
April 06, 2014
Do westerners and easterners have different ideas about spirituality and sexuality? William Darlymple, who has...
April 04, 2014
Calvinism is making a comeback today, according to this clip from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly....

March 2014

March 29, 2014
Did you know that Lalibela, a small town in northern Ethiopia, is known as the...
March 28, 2014
Jews have a strong heritage in the Middle East and parts of North Africa like...
March 26, 2014
Mediation is about much more than healing. Above all, it's about enlightenment, according to Hwansan...
March 26, 2014
Here, in this excellent Ted Talk, Ziauddin Yousafzaithe, Malala's father, discusses the limited role of...
March 22, 2014
Wow! According to Pew Research, almost one in ten countries have police that "enforce religious...
March 21, 2014
Here Simon Schama, author of the new book, The Story of the Jews, talks with...
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