Are you enjoying God’s grandeur? For me, the last days in August are a special time. The trees are full and magnificent, swaying with their heavy heads of leaves; the relatives are getting ready to go home to various cities, and children are trying to get their parents to buy school ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In her 1994 memoir, Dolly Parton recounts in vivid detail the place where she found God. It was an abandoned church, in rural Tennessee where she grew up, that had become known as a haven for sex, drugs and violence. Rather than see the used condoms on the floor, the ...
I was asked the other day by a friend, “How do we keep our goodness and grace amidst what is going on?” I thought of a historical time not unlike our own. Enter the world of the 1700’s. We often call this the Revolutionary Era, and it is similar to what we are undergoing currently in our ...
Editor's note: This article was originally published in The Conversation The growing assertion of a majority Hindu identity is fueling debates about religious pluralism in India. A 2025 Washington-based research group report documented a steady, incremental increase in hate speech since 2023 ...
I was shopping the other day. Checking out of a store, a young man waited on me. He had a beautiful tattoo on his forearm, black eyeliner under his eyes, and for some reason a tight-knit cap on his head. It was 85 degrees, so the knit cap caught my attention. He was most personable. I asked him if he had graduated from high school; he had not. There were problems in his family, and he had never been in one place to finish his education. “Well,” I said, “you will have to go and get your GED.” “Yes,” he said, but I have to make money to live.” It was a difficult moment; ...
DETROIT — Abdul El-Sayed made history last week in Michigan by becoming the first Muslim nominated by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Senate. But elation among many of his fellow Muslim Americans was tempered by awareness of persisting and widespread anti-Muslim sentiment across ...
