Fourteen Sonnets of Garcilaso de la Vega
Translated by Edward Zeind Ten years have elapsed since I resolved to plunge into my memory the ensuing nose rag-like fourteen sonnets written by Garcilaso de la Vega (1503, Toledo, …
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On Religion: Self-identified believers versus true believers
When political scientists and pollsters discuss faith and politics, one of their biggest challenges is separating the true believers from those who merely say they are believers. It’s kind of …
Poll results signal little change on sexuality in church of England
Results of the General Synod (national church parliament) election in the Church of England indicate that conservative evangelicals will have the numbers to block changes such as authorising same-sex blessings …
Abductions have increased in Haiti, but religious aid groups are still going there
The seventeen people from an Christian aid mission abducted in Haiti while returning from an orphanage remain missing, four days later. Their kidnapping – brazen even in a country where …
Churches in the Middle East: “Many Christians continue to serve among the refugees”
In the last decade, the Middle East has become one of the regions hosting the largest number of displaced people in the world. Most of them are from the neighboring area, as …
Evangelicals Have Higher Rates of ‘Practicing Christians’ than Other Mainline Denominations: American Bible Society Survey
According to a new survey by the American Bible Society (ABS), evangelical-affiliated churches have more “practicing” Christians than those in other mainline denominations. The survey, titled “The Bible in the …
Black Atheists Often Feel Forced to Hide Their Beliefs, Resulting in Significant Harm, New Research Finds
Today, the atheist organizations American Atheists and Black Nonbelievers released Black Nonreligious Americans, a report based on a survey of 891 Black participants, drawn from a larger survey of nonreligious people …
For Natives, land is sacred. Why aren’t we protecting their religious freedom?
Recently America has been faced with horrific stories of mass graves at Indigenous residential schools. These stories draw our attention again to the injustices long faced by Indigenous communities and are a …
Should Christians “follow the science”?
Ideally, faith and science should complement each other. Unfortunately, as the pandemic has played out over many months, they often have seemed to be at odds. “There’s been a very divisive …
The deconstruction of American evangelicalism
We are witnessing at this moment the intellectual deconstruction of a religious group that has been called “evangelicalism.” Illusions about this community are being destroyed left and right. Of course, those …