Religious issues and debates

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Award of Merit, 2019 Christianity Today Book Awards (History/Biography) More than forty years ago, conservative Christianity emerged as a major force in American political life.

Award of Merit, 2019 Christianity Today Book Awards (History/Biography) More than forty years ago, conservative Christianity emerged as a major force in American political life.

Why do thousands of Mormons devote their summer vacations to following the Mormon Trail?

Do scientists see conflict between science and faith?

American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers.

One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods.

"e;Dear Brother,"e; Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F.

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think.

The Puritans called Baptists "e;the troublers of churches in all places"e; and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King was identified with Moses, African Americans identified those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson.

In Witnessing Whiteness, Kristopher Norris explores the challenges that lie at the intersection of race, church, and politics in America and argues for a new ethics of responsibility to confront white supremacy.

Colleges, universities, and seminaries do more than just transfer knowledge to students.

The specter of polygamy haunts Mormonism.

On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law.

After America's Iraq adventure devolved into a debacle, a chorus of commentators and analysts noted that the U.

In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France.

Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies.

In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion.

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century.

The purpose of the book is to revive the spirit of real Christianity in the United States, stand against our Adversary and turn from our collective moral drift.

In An Appeal to the World, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet illuminates the way to peace in our time, arguing for a form of universal ethics that goes beyond religion - values we all share as humans that can help us create unity and peace to heal our world.

With an estimated 250 million adherents, the Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian body in the world.

The field of psychology, and especially neuropsychology, can be daunting for Christian students trying to find their way.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news.

An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "e;fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination"e; (The New York Times)At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason.

En este libro se revelan, tras tres años de trabajo en colaboración con una veintena de científicos y especialistas de alto nivel, las pruebas modernas de la existencia de Dios.