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How do you define religion?

This week we asked our writers how accountability plays a role in their faith.

In this higher level of spiritual perception, determining what is right or wrong, good or evil is not about thinking or processing as in discursive logic, but rather a “knowing.”

The biblical figure of Mary Magdalene has been “interpreted and misinterpreted, just as Jesus has been interpreted and misinterpreted,” according to Michael Haag, historian and author of “The Quest for Mary Magdalene,” published in May.

That’s the day the nation’s most populous state implements a law, passed in 2015, making physician-assisted dying accessible to one in six Americans, according to its national backers, Compassion & Choices.

It all started about seven years ago when actor Morgan Freeman visited the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

The vote at their 60th General Conference Session in San Antonio was 1,381 to 977. It was largely influenced by delegates from Africa and South America who often have more conservative views on women’s ordination than Adventists in other regions.