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(Photo: Getty/iStock) After commemorating 100 years of non secular broadcasting, the BBC has reaffirmed its dedication to proceed religion programming on each tv and radio, emphasising the enduring relevance of non secular content material in right this moment’s media panorama. Tim Pemberton, Head of Religion and Ethics for BBC Audio, and Daisy Scalchi, […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) In a cultural revival that delves into the guts of Welsh heritage, folks singer Lleuwen Steffan has unearthed a trove of hymns that have been as soon as shunned by all-male committees, reportedly on account of their candid exploration of points corresponding to psychological well being and habit. Steffan’s discovery, made […] More

The dangerous information for Southern Baptists is that the denomination, the nation’s largest Protestant group, shrank in 2023, with a drop of a couple of quarter-million individuals. The excellent news, in line with the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual statistical report, is that the decline slowed from 2022. In addition, of those that remained, […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) Last week’s native election outcomes have been a blended bag, with the one overriding theme being a continued decline in Conservative fortunes. Roughly half of all of the Conservative councillors searching for re-election final Thursday misplaced their seats. A proportion paying homage to the destiny of councillors in my very own party, […] More

Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali mentioned her conversion to Christianity in a dialogue moderated by Unherd editor Freddie Sayers.(Photo: X) Women’s rights activist and up to date convert to Christianity, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has mentioned she feels “remorse” for having as soon as mocked the religion she now claims as her personal.  […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) People typically ask if Christians ought to take the Bible actually. Some individuals complain that Christians take the Bible too actually, others complain that Christians do not take the Bible actually sufficient. What ought to we do? What does actually imply? First, we must always take a look at what […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) Jewish educational and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster displays on what familial love means inside Jewish thought. In my earlier article about Rabbi Shai Held’s new guide, Judaism is about Love, I talked about how Judaism isn’t merely about legislation, but in addition about love. In Judaism love and legislation work hand in hand. […] More

(Photo: Getty/iStock) (CP) The president of a nonprofit Christian persecution watchdog that screens hostility to religion and freedom overseas warned that too few Christians in America and the West appear conscious of how such tendencies are manifesting at residence. “Basically, we’re frogs within the kettle, and the bubbles preserve developing below us,” Jeff […] More

Suffering can educate us love, however all too typically we let it educate us apathy and indifference — or, worse, unbridled rage and hostility. Our afflictions harden us, flip our focus stubbornly inward, make our most aggressive impulses appear each vital and justified. We come to really feel entitled: I used to be oppressed, and […] More

Daniel C. Dennett, probably the most extensively learn and debated American philosophers, whose prolific works explored consciousness, free will, faith and evolutionary biology, died on Friday in Portland, Maine. He was 82. His demise, at Maine Medical Center, was brought on by problems of interstitial lung illness, his spouse, Susan Bell Dennett, stated. He lived […] More

Many Israelis have been in a somber temper on Monday as they ready to usher in Passover, the Jewish competition of freedom, saying they’d mark the vacation quite than have a good time it, with greater than 130 hostages remaining in Gaza. The variety of hostages believed to be alive is unclear, and with negotiations […] More

The wall of Jerusalem as uncovered within the excavatio s of the Israel Antiquities Authority, with Dr. Joe Uziel, Dr. Filip Vukosavovich and Ortal Chalaf who uncovered the wall.(Photo: Kobi Harati/City of David Foundation) New analysis within the Holy Land into the expansion and development of Jerusalem is lending additional credence to recordings contained […] More