Dickens and religion: A tale of two views By peggy fletcher stack The Salt Lake Tribune Published Feb 5, 2012 05:31PM MDT A yearlong celebration of Charles Dickens’ life and works will begin on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Feb. 7, with a wreath-laying at London’s Westminster Abbey. It seems a fitting gesture, given that the Abbey’s Poets’ Corner houses the famous writer’s remains. But it ...
Abdullah said a handful of terror-mongers have brought disrepute to Islam.
HELENA, Mont. (AP)—A mountaintop Jesus statue can stay at a ski resort in the western U.S. state of Montana—for now.
Newt Gingrich upped his attacks against President Obama today over his administration’s requirement that some religious hospitals offer birth control under the new health care law. Gingrich’s comments come after a week of outrage from the Catholic Church and his fellow GOP presidential candidates over...
Many people think that Atheism is not a religion because it is defined as "Disbelief in the existence of God or gods", but to me it seems to go far beyond that. I have yet to meet a single atheist who . . .
For the launch of his book, Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton unveiled a plan for the first of what he hopes will be a network of atheistic shrines
MUSIC -- United States Army Chorus, in concert, 2 p.m. today, St. Mary's Catholic Church, 9505 Gayton Road; free.
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The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document.
In places like Ann Arbor, I often hear that religion is on the way out. Scientific advances have rendered superstition obsolete — one doesn’t need to believe in God to know where the sun goes at night. I agree. I disagree, though, with the idea that religion will therefore disappear. read more