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Who really wrote the Bible, and how should it be used? The purpose of the Bible is more abstract, suggests biblical scholar Dr. Michael Coogan, a lecturer on the Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School.
Yet another case of prayer in public school has popped up in the news. This time, the prayers were literally being broadcast over loudspeakers at the beginning of school football games in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
The recent slew of gay youth suicides in the United States has prompted many to re-examine the role of religion, as a recent survey says that most Americans believe religion has a significant influence.
The fact that so many challenges to religion in public schools have been popping up lately is probably a good sign that democracy is alive and well, and that the public care about separation of church and state.
With all of the scandals that have rocked Christian churches lately, it is nice to see that a cluster of them have shifted the focus back toward philanthropy and taken up the cause of HIV awareness and prevention.
If it seems as though the ULC Monastery blog has been discussing the use of Bibles in government-run institutions lately, it is because the practice has been surprisingly ubiquitous.
A prison in the U.S. state of South Carolina is being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union for banning all books except for the Bible, which the ACLU says is illegal.
Many prospective ministers still have lingering doubts about the legality of online ordination, which still carries a stigma due to the flexibility shown by the internet churches granting the ordination requests.
Civilized and rational people have been given yet another reason to fear religion as a potential source of violence after a man blamed his own faith as the cause of his child abuse.
Good news has arrived for British heathens. At least one pagan religion regained its status within Christendom recently when the United Kingdom announced that it had formally recognized Druidry as an official religion.
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