Conflicts between science and religion — perhaps more accurately, between practitioners of these great fields of endeavor — have been around throughout history.
Why would God -- all-knowing, all-loving -- create what has evolved into countless divisions sharing many common beliefs, yet disagreeing, even fighting, over others?
In the whirlwind pace of news, outrage, and defensive walls of the past six weeks, many American Christians are struggling with what their beliefs mean when applied to the democracy-based republic form of government.
MacKenzie Bills, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia, discusses the problem of conflating religion and ethnicity, and how it endangers true freedom of religion.
Even though I am challenged almost daily in my beliefs, in my existence, in the reason for my being and living here in the United States, I love that I am transforming.