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May 2014

May 28, 2014
What is apostasy and where is it practiced? According to this excellent article in the...
May 28, 2014
What is meditation?  What is the difference between prayer and meditation? These are the questions...
May 26, 2014
Top Documentary Films has has an awesome library of films and documentaries about religion. Many...
May 21, 2014
Buddhist scholars Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr. review these common misconceptions...
May 20, 2014
Here are two amazing sacred sites, the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar and the Salt Cathedral...
May 19, 2014
Studying Hinduism?  Here's a great five minute clip about the holy Hindu city, Varanasi. The...
May 18, 2014
The Yungang Grottoes in northern China, which contain thousands of Buddhist statues from the 5th...
May 18, 2014
A 15 year old survivor of the Boku Haram kidnapping relates her horrifying story in...
May 17, 2014
Here's an interesting clip in which Reza Aslan discusses Jesus and notes that he was...
May 16, 2014
Muslims have a rich history in the United States, especially among enslaved Africans, according to...
May 14, 2014
Cleaning the sacred Ganges River is now at the center of the big Indian election...
May 13, 2014
Vesak Day celebrates the Buddha's birth and enlightenment and Buddhists celebrate the day around the...
May 05, 2014
These two clips, the first  from CNN and the second from the PBS News Hour...
May 04, 2014
Could China become the world's largest Christian country? That's what some scholars believe, according to...
May 03, 2014
Watch a Qigong master show Bill Moyers the power of ch'i, as he projects his...
May 03, 2014
Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court reminds us why we should all...
May 01, 2014
Should a Sikh be barred from jury duty because he carries a religious dagger? A...
May 01, 2014
This is the the Şakirin Mosque in Turkey. It's beautiful and it was designed by...

April 2014

April 30, 2014
Professor Ruqayya Khan, chair of Islamic Studies at Claremont Graduate University in California, argues that...
April 30, 2014
Pat Robertson also says that like Nazism and Communism, Islam aims toward world domination!
April 29, 2014
How different is Buddhism from the Abrahamic religions?   What does it mean to be...
April 27, 2014
Nicholas Kristof, an op ed columnist for the New York Times, makes a strong case...
April 26, 2014
Here is a fascinating and touching story about Varanasi, the most sacred place for devout...
April 26, 2014
Teaching Islam?  Here's an interesting documentary about what it's like for a West Virginia Christian...
April 25, 2014
Here's an interesting biographical review of the two popes who will be canonized this weekend,...
April 25, 2014
Did you know that Hinduism, despite its many gods, is not polytheistic. Or, that Hindus...
April 24, 2014
Take a  virtual tour of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's on the Temple Mount in...
April 24, 2014
Here is a great animated review of the four major Hindu yoga traditions: Bhakti, Karma,...
April 23, 2014
Here's an interesting debate for a religions class. Should the National September 11 Memorial Museum...
April 21, 2014
Here's a great story about religious intolerance and how one group of young Sikhs is...
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