Religious and spiritual traditions have, for millennia, provided practices, rituals, and communities that help people come together to make sense of life, support one another, and seek the ...
Human innovation may alter how we see, hear or even perceive reality, but it will not undo the deepest truths of faith. Ecclesiastes reminds us, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9). Every ...
I began my career as a scholar of crime, deviance, and social problems, studying where things went wrong in the world and in people’s lives. Only in recent years have I come to appreciate a whole ...
Karl Marx once said religion is the opiate of the masses. His metaphor may have a whiff of literal truth, even if it was intended as a hostile attack on religion from an atheistic perspective. It may ...
This week marks 75 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) — the document that has become the blueprint for our international ...
A glance at recorded history shows us that humans have “always” felt a need to explain phenomena perceived to exist beyond our comprehension. Today, we turn to science to seek answers to our questions ...
Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...
The impact of Moltbook, the social network of 'bots' where a non-human religion has been founded, and the rise of AI-generated religious content among believers open the debate on what a future with ...
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush explores the urgent message of the Freedom To Read Day of Community Action with three leaders in the fight against book bans: Dartmouth Librarian Qiana Johnson, ...
In a era marked by rapid technological advancement, we are seeing everything from artificial intelligence to robots slowly seep into our everyday lives. But now, this technology is increasingly making ...