Living Goddess Gets Fired and Rehired

Losing PlayStation privileges or being confined to a room would be hard enough for most children, but at the tender age of ten, Sajani Shakya almost lost ...

Camp Allows Kids to Make Their Own Religion

Camp Quest West, just north of Sacramento, California, is no church camp. Designed for children of agnostics, atheists, freethinkers, and humanists, the ...

New Christian Miraculously Saved from Death and Shame

Hawa Ahmed was a Muslim student in North Africa. One day, she read a Christian tract in her dormitory and decided to become a Christian. Her father was ...

Worshiping God Better Than Super Bowl

John Burrough, retired NFL star, reflects on his 1998 Super Bowl experience:

In the middle of all the explosions and hoopla and hype, all I could think ...

George Lucas on Belief in God

Star Wars director George Lucas said in Time:

"I put the Force in the movie (Star Wars) in order to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young ...

Poorest Notion

It is much worse to have a false idea of God than no idea at all.

Poor Substitutes for God

When people do succeed in breaking free from belief in God, they simply create another religious belief to replace it. We always assimilate religion or ...

Substitutes for God

People repeatedly will choose substitutes for God.

Creating What Destroys Us

In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen retells a tale from ancient India: Four royal brothers decided each to master a special ability. Time went by, and ...

Sport as Religion

"Sport is America's newest and fastest-growing religion, far outdistancing whatever is in second place," says Charles S. Prebish, associate ...