Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Friday, July 18, 2025

World religions, by population

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 The Pew research center has been keeping an eye on religious affiliations around the world. More than half of us are Christians or Muslims....
Sunday, July 13, 2025

The repugnance of slavery (1847)--an open letter

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  The civil war was preceded by a schism among Northern and Southern Baptists over the institution of slavery.  The recent rediscovery of a...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Informed consent and mortal sin, in the case of Medical Aid in Dying

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 Studying morally contested transactions doesn't always suggest paths by which consensus might be reached. It often suggests that confli...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Evangelical resolution on the 21st Century

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 The NYT has the story: Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was moti...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Separation of church and university

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  There are tensions between churches and universities, and one of them is playing out between the United Methodist Church and several Metho...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Organ transplant ban by Taliban in Afghanistan (BBC)

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  Afshin Nikzad forwards me this report from  the BBC Persian service (in Farsi, but automatically translated by Chrome): Kidney transplant ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Marriage markets among religious Jews

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 Here's a 2024 report: The Challenges of Singlehood among American Orthodox Jews Part II   by  Dr. Matt Williams, Dr. Michelle Shain, Dr...