The Purpose of Life
Probe's Paul Rutherford looks at the purpose of life from his Christian perspective as well as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Hollywood.| Probe Ministries
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Uttarakhand state, India last week passed an amendment to its controversial anti-conversion law expanding punishment to life imprisonment. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government managed to introduce the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2025 during an assembly session that turned chaotic over alleged Panchayat (local council) rigging. The […] The post India’s Harshest Anti-Conversion Law Approved in Uttarakhand appeared first o...| Morningstar News
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Falsely accusing two nuns and a Christian man of trafficking three women in India, Hindu extremists with threats and assault forced the three tribal Christian women to sign a statement against their companions, sources said. “We will gang rape you if you do not do as we say,” the members […] The post Nuns in India Jailed, Christians Assaulted amid Baseless Charges appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 1937-2020| Kotzk Blog
In Hegab v The Spectator (1828) Ltd & Anor [2025] EWHC 2043 (KB), Mr Hegab sought damages in libel and under the Data Protection Act 2018 in respect of an article written by the second defendant, Mr Murray, and published … Continue reading →| Law & Religion UK
The opposite of “right” is “left,” but let’s be real, it might as well be “wrong.” At least that’s what it felt like growing up as a lefty in a…| Fourteen East
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Program in Religious Studies supports promising PhD students or recent graduates (within 1 year of graduating with PhD and in an teaching or independent research position of some kind) to pursue targeted scholarship in Process-relational philosophy in substantive dialog with any aspect of South Asian traditions and praxis. Projects that engage the Jain tradition are particularly welcome. The post UCI Process Studies & South Asia Fellowship 2025-26 ap...| Center for Process Studies
Probe's Paul Rutherford looks at the purpose of life from his Christian perspective as well as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Hollywood.| Probe Ministries
The Israeli rabbinic world has finally begun to take account of the religions of the world, especially Hinduism and Buddhism, and has recently declared that they have the same status as Christianity. Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, of Yeshivat Har … Continue reading →| The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
Explore the rich cultural heritage of Northeast India and the Sufi influence on religious harmony between Hindus and Muslims in Assam.| Traversing Tradition
Tripura Sundari Hindu Temple via WikiMedia Commons (CC0 1.0) In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion and overruled both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In doing so, the Court puts state governments in charge of regulating…Read More| Canopy Forum
Welcome to our newsletter, dear readers, • Our first new library item this month is a chapter on the divine play of Hindu/Buddhist deity Chinnamasta, one of the ten goddesses from the esoteric tradition of Tantra, and a ferocious aspect of Mahadevi, the Hindu Mother goddess. Chinnamasta indicates a transcendence of the ordinary and portrays| The Matheson Trust
Summer 2023 student led project by Nicholas Damiano Abstract Queerphobia and 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination have been issues that have been present in religious communities for a long time leading to exclusion and hatred of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals from these communities that has runoff into other aspects of the world. It is important to understand how religious communities have contributed to difficulties faced by the queer community and … The post 2SLGBTQ+ Folks & Faith in Canada appeared first on T...| The Awakening Project
I’ve talked a lot about the Caribbean already and mentioned that Hinduism is the second-largest religion in this area. How is that possible? How does Hinduism appear in the Caribbean? D…| VOICES
Welcome to our newsletter, dear readers. • We open our monthly selection with a page on St Francis of Assisi’s 13th-century “Canticle of the Creatures” (Laudes Creaturarum), also known as “Canticle of Brother Sun,” including a bilingual text, an audio reading of the original and an interpretative essay. This beautiful and brief poem has been| The Matheson Trust
Welcome to our newsletter, dear reader, • We begin our monthly selection with an article about “African Traditional Religion” reflecting on the essential convergence, the unanimity of the many native African religious paths and practices, allowing us to see beyond reductionist and trite labels like animism or pantheism. The Ewe-speaking people speak of Him as| The Matheson Trust
Many people “know” that that the Buddha “was born a Hindu.” But this, like the ideas that he was a prince and that he left home after seeing “the four sights” is also untrue. The “Hindu Prince” Writers often bundle myth of the Buddha having been born a Hindu together with his supposed princely status. For...| Wildmind
Welcome to our monthly newsletter, dear readers, Our first new library item is an introduction to “the most famous of early modern litanies”, the Litany of Loreto. We present some recordings of sung versions of this originally Latin prayer, the ritual recitation of Divine and Marian epithets, which is rooted in ancient and late antique| The Matheson Trust
Welcome to our last newsletter of this year, with our wishes for a blessed 2025. • Our first new library addition this month is a selection from the Sutra of the Heap of Jewels, Ratnakuta Sutra, a major ancient collection of Buddhist sutras, which has been called a small encyclopedia of Indian Mahayana Buddhism. “…| The Matheson Trust
Welcome to our newsletter, dear reader, • We begin our monthly selection with an article presenting a choice of ginans, hymns of wisdom (from the Sanskrit jnana) from the Nizari Ismaili tradition. These songs, often recited along ritual prayer, are accorded a near scriptural status, and regarded as conveying in the vernacular the inner meaning| The Matheson Trust
Image by Mariya Popovich from Pixabay This article is part of our “Religious Perspectives on Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy” series. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. While a great deal has already been written about cross-racial surrogacy and surrogacy in India, there are, however, no significant or credible studies concerning gestational surrogacy from…Read More| Canopy Forum
You can listen to the original podcast here Michael Taft: Welcome to Deconstructing Yourself, the podcast for metamodern mutants interested in meditation, neuroscience, Dzogchen, jazz, Tantra, philosophy, awakening, and much, much more. My name is Michael Taft, your host on the podcast, and in this episode, I’m happy to be speaking with my good friend,… Read More »Transcript of Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing, with Rick Jarow The post Transcript of Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry...| Deconstructing Yourself
