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Have rejected report to give dalit converts quotas: Government in Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Opposing a plea to bring Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims within the ambit of Scheduled Castes to grant them reservation, the Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it rejected the findings of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission to include them in the SC list as the…

The Times of India

White Britons are declining and immigrants help prop up Christianity. Does it matter?

New census data reveals a complex emerging society increasingly at ease with itself. Not that you’d know it from our bitter public rows

The Guardian - UK

'I was surprised Farage and Tories were so outraged that fewer Brits are Christians'

Mirror columnist Mark Steel thought the Conservatives and Farage would be delighted by the census - given the Bible's teachings of 'loving foreigners as you love yourself'

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Cleverly criticises China for arresting journalists – but what about Britain?

The Guardian - UK

Calls grow to disestablish Church of England as Christians become minority

Role of church in parliament and schools questioned as census shows 5.5m fewer holders of faith in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Census 2021 in charts: Christianity now minority religion in England and Wales

The 2021 census has also shown that some of England’s biggest cities are becoming more diverse

The Guardian - UK

Emily Sheffield: As society evolves, our moral codes are being tested like never before

When was the last time you asked yourself: what is the moral code you live by? And if you wrote a list of the guidelines within that code, what would they be? Frequently we will trot out the golden rule that we should treat others as we want to be…

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‘An Odd Cross to Bear’: The choices Ruth Bell Graham made as Billy Graham’s wife

She believed in the death penalty and said that in countries where they have it, “I feel safer walking down the street.” Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell Graham befriended North Carolina’s death row inmate Velma Barfield, convicted of murdering seven people, including her own mother. And while there was no…

Tribune News Service

Top 10 books about losing faith

Authors from Jeanette Winterson to William Shakespeare tell stories of people doubting not just God but everything that gives their life meaning

The Guardian - UK

Reflecting on a century of Fascism

When Fascist Blackshirts marched through the streets of Rome at the end of October 1922, their leader, Benito Mussolini, had just been installed as prime minister.

Bangkok Post

Christofascism Is Everyone’s Problem

The Rev. Dr. Carter Heyward's new book asks white Christians to take responsibility for dismantling America’s oppressive, patriarchal systems.

Texas Observer

GOPer wrote Jesusy "Anne Frank" sequel

Johnny Teague wrote a novel in which Frank accepts Jesus and converts to Christianity at Auschwitz

Salon

From atheist churches to finding healing in the 'sacred flower of cannabis,' spiritual but not religious Americans are finding new ways of pursuing meaning

According to a recent Pew Center report, American Christianity remains in a nearly three-decade decline. Responding as “none” or “unaffiliated” on religious surveys, people increasingly identify as humanists, atheists, agnostics, or simply spiritual. If current trends continue, by 2070 Christianity may no longer be the dominant expression of American religion.

The Conversation

"They cannot survive without fear"

In "Heretic," Jeanna Kadlec writes of the hard but necessary journey of escaping fundamentalist Christianity

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Get-rich-quick schemes drained my town’s wealth. At a Christian conference, their legacy lives on

Life Surge, where speakers include Tim Tebow and a Duck Dynasty star, ties together faith and financial planning

The Conversation

Christian nationalism poses a threat to human rights in Ghana

Ghana is a religious country. According to the 2021 census, about 71% of the population is Christian and 18% Muslim. Followers of indigenous or animistic religious beliefs make up another 5%, and 6% are members of other religious groups or don’t have religious beliefs.

The Conversation

The Lindisfarne Gospels: the story of how a medieval masterpiece was made

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the English coast in Northumbria, a monk by the name of Eadfrith sits down and sharpens his quill. He dips it into the black ink pot before him and, guided by the light of flickering candle,…

The Guardian - UK

Even Ted Hughes has fallen to the sickly cult of the twee

From the Queen to Robin Williams, sentimental images abound to help us through grief and avoid staring death in the face

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America's wildly contradictory sex story

This is why American culture feels both pearl-clutching and porn-saturated at the same time

The Hindu

Political Secretary to Sikkim CM spreading Christianity, VHP tells Amit Shah

Rai says he was shocked to learn about the wild, unfounded and dubious allegations

WEKU

Trans religious leaders say scripture should inspire inclusive congregations

As some evangelicals push to restrict civil rights for trans people, other Christians use similar sacred texts and traditions to build a theology that embraces trans lives as part of God's creation.

The Hindu

Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims can’t be compared to Buddhist converts, says Centre’s 2019 affidavit

The affidavit goes against the 2011 recommendation of National Commission for Scheduled Castes

The Guardian - UK

‘Restoring the river’: why Kenyans are returning to precolonial spirituality

From TikTok videos to traditional songs and stories, Kikuyu cultural beliefs and practices suppressed under 19th-century colonialism are seeing a revival

The Conversation

Why Pope Francis chose to highlight religious freedom during his visit to Kazakhstan

Pope Francis spent three days in Kazakhstan, starting Sept. 13, 2022, to attend the Seventh Congress of World and Traditional Religions. The pope met with religious leaders, called for increased religious freedom and condemned religious justifications for war and violence.

WEKU

America's Christian majority is on track to end

A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.

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