by Eleanor Goldberg | May 6, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
WASHINGTON — If your mom says “you shouldn’t have” on Sunday when you hand her flowers, remind her that she likely influenced your generous ways. When it comes to giving, 17 percent of 1,000 adults surveyed said their mothers had the most impact on their giving...
by Eleanor Goldberg | Apr 30, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
WASHINGTON — With an open-collared baby blue shirt and Dolce & Gabbana jacket hugging his slim frame, Tariq Ramadan appears the epitome of Western sophistication. But from 2004 until just a few months ago, the Department of Homeland Security viewed him with...
by Lauren E. Bohn | Apr 30, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality, Topics
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is not doing enough to protect religious freedoms abroad, the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said Thursday in its annual report to Congress and the White House. “The problems are above and...
by Eleanor Goldberg | Apr 21, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
WASHINGTON — Church bells rang to the tune of justice in Phoenix on Monday when a federal court declared any ordinance prohibiting religious expression unconstitutional. The day after 20-year-old Christ the King Cathedral moved two miles from its former location...
by Dean DeChiaro & Phoebe Tollefson | Apr 15, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
WASHINGTON–“Notoriously religious.” That is religious scholar John Mbiti’s description of Africans in his classic book, “African Religions and Philosophy.” A survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life backs up...
by Eleanor Goldberg | Apr 12, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
(Eleanor Goldberg/MEDILL) “We are together with you in this,” Rev. Richard Cizik, right, says of his unequivocal support of Global Zero’s mission to eliminate nuclear weapons. Former CIA officer Valerie Plame, left, and Gen. John Sheehan, center,...
