Deepak Chopra in the U.S. and Christians in Nepal

Two recent news stories from the same day (February 3, 2016) offered a strange twist that has implications for world missions. Deepak Chopra, the Hindu ...

The Eternal Souls All Around Us

About every ten seconds, on average about 26 people die. By extrapolating from various statistics, including death rates and world populations and religious ...

The World Is More Religious Than Ever

Is our world becoming overwhelming secular? Not exactly, says researcher Rodney Stark. In his book The Triumph of Faith, Stark argues that our world is ...

Survey Asks 'Do All Religions Lead to God?'

Buried within Pew's recent study on the American religious landscape was a startling find. Adults who identified with a specific religion were asked whether ...

Broken People Praying to a Broken Buddha

Pastor/author J.R. Vassar writes about ministering in Myanmar (Burma) and coming upon a broken Buddha:

One day we were prayer walking through a large Buddhist ...

Religion … the Fountain of Youth?

A BBC article profiles a Seventh Day Adventist community in Loma Linda, California, where aged residents live an average of ten years longer than the ...

The Six Blind Men and a Talking Elephant

Do you remember the famous story about the six blind men and the elephant? One blind man touches the belly of the animal and thinks it's a wall. Another ...

World War 2 'Cargo Cults'—Faith Without Power

Natives of the islands of the South West Pacific had very little, if any, contact with the modern world and its many technological advances. So during ...

Comedian on Guilt and Religion

The comedian Cathy Ladman expresses a view that's becoming more and more common: "All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt with ...

Money Can't Buy Meaning; Only Religion Can

For years now researchers have been trying to determine if money can buy happiness. Previous research has shown that wealthy countries typically rank ...