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For news consumers who are closely following events on the ground in Syria, especially those of us who are worried about the protection of religious minorities there, it will come as little surprise to learn that ethnic Armenians are fleeing the dangerous cities and towns of Syria.
Anyone who knows anything about the at times dangerous dance between politics and religion in modern America knows that:
A flurry of e-mailed links to religion news stories flies back and forth each day among your friendly neighborhood GetReligionistas.
Since I grew up in a solidly Baylor family, I have always understood why the university’s seal contains the following crucial words in Latin: Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana.
One of the big election-day stories in deep-blue, liberal Maryland was the narrow victory for same-sex marriage — especially since the polls were so close going into the final hours.
It should be a quiet day on the religion-beat front, in the wake of yesterday’s nail-biters in the real world of politics. If the past repeats itself, as it often does, it will take a few days for the religion elements of the story to emerge, other than the usual “Obama won the Catholic vote (whatever that is)” headlines.
The 25 October 2012 issue of The New Republic carries a story entitled âThetans and Bowtiesâ that I canât quite get my head round. By this I do not mean I do not understand what the article says â but I am having a hard time classifying its species.
