Minute for God

We hear a lot these days about believers changing their religious affiliations. Did you hear about the Lumberton, North Carolina man who changed his faith every month just last year?

He called it “Project Conversion.” But Andrew Bowen was not looking for God again… he was looking for faith in Humanity. He literally observed 12 belief systems during each month of 2011. Hindu, Baha’i, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Buddhist, Agnostic, Mormon, Muslim, Sikh, Wiccan, Jain and Catholic. He even had a mentor for each month’s experience.

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What does the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” really mean? Specifically, how does it relate to soldiers who are forced to kill while serving their country?

God Squad columnist Marc Gellman responded recently to a veteran who killed enemy troops in wartime and remains concerned about his moral standing.

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Do the smaller numbers of people in organized religion today mean that religion itself is dying or are we seeing dramatic changes in how we relate to God?

In a new book “Christianity After Religion,” author and professor Diana Butler Bass summarizes opinion polls and statistics that define a sea change in American society. She calls it the Fourth Great Awakening.

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Members of the Baha’i faith will gather in Wilmett, Illinois this Saturday to celebrate a nationwide tour of North America by a leader of their faith one hundred years ago this year.

American Bahai’s will celebrate the journey of Abdul Baha, son of the founder of the Baha’i religion, who visited 50 major cities in the U.S. and Canada in 1912.

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More than 20,000 humanists, atheists and free thinkers gathered on the National Mall in Washington March 24. What was the reason for the so-called Reason Rally?

According to the organizers, the main purpose was to encourage all people who describe themselves as having a “God-free lifestyle” to come out of the closet and be counted. Research says the percentage of atheists in the United States has more than doubled in the past 20 years.

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For once and for all, Dr. Bart Ehrman, the distinguished scholar and author at the University of North Carolina, hopes to put to rest the increasingly popular question, does Jesus Exist?

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Have you ever heard a minister say “most Christian lives are a perpetual mockery of Jesus Christ?”

The challenge to all Christians was made by the Reverend Canon Dr. Sam Wells, Dean of the Duke University Chapel and a speaker during the Christ Church Lenten Series. Wells described what people did to Jesus on the day he was crucified. The mob, the chief priests the bandits hanging with him…they all said… if you are God, come down off that cross and save yourself.

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