Author: ON RELIGION by Terry Mattingly
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LONG HISTORY BEHIND BITTER ORTHODOX SCHISM IN UKRAINE
After the Soviet Union’s collapse, Orthodox Christians throughout the Slavic world celebrated the slow, steady construction of churches after decades of persecution. Read More: ... -
FAITH, FAMILY AND THE DROPPING NUMBER OF MARRIAGES (PART II)
It’s a message young people in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hear early and often: You should get married, because marriage ... -
FAITH, FAMILY AND THE DROPPING NUMBER OF MARRIAGES (PART I)
For decades, viewers have enjoyed the Japanese reality TV series “Old Enough!” in which preschool children venture into the streets alone to run errands ... -
THE FAITH QUESTIONS THAT HAUNTED THE LIFE OF GORBACHEV
It isn’t every day that one of the creators of a political thriller gets to ask its real-life protagonist to evaluate the novel’s plot. ... -
THERE'S THAT ANCIENT QUESTION AGAIN — WHERE IS HEAVEN?
When cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin returned to Earth in 1961, after the first manned spaceflight, Soviet leaders claimed he said: “I went up to space, ... -
WHY ARE HIT WORSHIP SONGS SO DIFFERENT FROM THE PSALMS?
It’s hard to read the Psalms without encountering one of the 65 references to the Hebrew word “mishpat,” which is usually translated as “judgments” ... -
SAME-SEX COUPLE PREACH TO CATHOLIC PARISH ON FATHER'S DAY
Landon Duyka and Alex Shingleton had almost given up on Catholicism. Read More: SAME-SEX COUPLE PREACH TO CATHOLIC PARISH ON FATHER'S DAY Source: Virgin ... -
NOTHING WAS USUAL ABOUT THAT PENTECOST MASSACRE IN NIGERIA
The massacre occurred during a Sunday mass, but it wasn’t an ordinary Sunday — this was the great feast of Pentecost, which marks the ... -
HOW WILL SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ADDRESS SEXUAL ABUSE?
Before the Southern Baptist Convention’s strong vote to approve what supporters called “bare minimum” sexual abuse reforms — with victims in the crowd weeping ... -
MIXED SIGNALS IN AN AMERICAN BISHOP'S LEAP
Two years before long-standing rumors about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick leapt into headlines worldwide, America’s most outspoken activist on clergy sexual abuse, Richard Sipe, met ...