Southeastern Local Schools has received notice from a Washington group that it would be a violation of the Establishment Clause to include a prayer at the graduation ceremony.
Traditionally, the school has had a reverend deliver an invocation and benediction at the ceremony, but the practice recently was challenged by senior Jacob Davis. Davis, who raised his concerns in a Letter to the Editor
History has it that the great rulers of Canaan, the ancient land of Israel, were all men. But a recent dig conducted by Tel Aviv University (TAU) archaeologists at Tel Beth-Shemesh has uncovered possible evidence of a mysterious female ruler.
Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman of the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations have uncovered an unusual ceramic pl
At a time when religious persecution is at the heart of the worlds most violent conflicts, religious freedom matters. Thats why the 2009 report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom should be required reading for policymakers in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.
Released on May 1, the report documents in chilling detail the global assault on freedom of religion and belief
My work draws me into conversations with people of many denominations and faiths. A phrase I often hear repeated is, Well, we are all praying to the same God, arent we? And I hardly ever disagree, because God alone knows the understandings of our hearts.
When religions collide, they often say we are worshipping the same God, but with wrong understanding. Christians told Jews the God of Moses
At the spiritually eclectic Nature Church, which attracts followers of Earth-based and nature religions, congregants also remembered the divine mother — mother goddesses first revered by ancient cultures for qualities of motherhood, fertility or creation.
“She is the oldest, most primal, most universal of deity concepts. It’s no wonder that in cultures all over the world, the divine mother is
A flat in a twelve storey building in Tekstilschiki, an industrial Moscow suburb, is an unlikely place for an election headquarters — and an even unlikelier one for the hub of a shaman election.
But this is where Shonchalai Khovenmei, whose grandmother was a shaman in Khakasia, a region in eastern Siberia, has joined forces with Moscow shaman Olard Dikson to organize the election for the post
Saudi Arabia’s morality police are launching a programme to combat witchcraft and sorcery, the official SPA news agency reported on Saturday.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also known as the muttawa, will create teams especially trained to eradicate the practices, deputy commission president Ibrahim al-Hoiml told SPA.
“The plan is aimed at developing peo
A celebrated Bay Area witch said she sure wishes people would stop asking if she’s a good witch or a bad witch.
This whole thing about good witches and bad witches is demeaning to witches. Witches do not melt when you throw water on them, and they do not kidnap lost girls from Kansas and their dogs. Neither do they toss eye of newt and toe of frog into bubbling cauldrons. What nonsense. Witchcr
Things that go woof in the night? Fur on the back of your neck standing upright?
You may be receiving a message from a dearly departed pet trying to reach you from beyond the kennel, according to pet psychic Simonne Lee.
While the self-styled animal communicator from North Bondi can communicate with your living animals, she estimates 30 per cent of her clients come seeking pet medium service
I guess I drew the short straw.
A colleague was telling me she’d been asked to write a piece about the first Mother’s Day without her recently deceased mother. She couldn’t do it. The loss is still too acutely felt, the hurt unhealed.
So I’ll have a run at it. My mother died during the first few minutes of 2009. Four months is a long time, especially when four hours is an eternity in our tur
