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Faith and mental illness: Churches open up on treatment
For many, faith and psychiatry had long been viewed as mortal enemies. Sigmund Freud famously saw religion as an “illusion” and a “neurosis,” and he described himself as a nonbeliever.
View ArticleShariah hysteria? Calls for banning Islamic law continue
The movement to bar any reference to Islam’s legal code, known as Shariah, from the American judicial system is moving ahead even as it faces legal challenges in the courts.
View ArticleTyphoon in the Philippines: People of faith respond
Faith communities are offering prayers and scrambling to help as the Philippines reels from a typhoon characterized by some climatologists as the most powerful ever to make landfall.
View ArticleGive thanks — it’s good for you
Why do all the world's religions emphasize giving thanks? What are the spiritual benefits of giving thanks? The physical benefits?
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