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Years ago a Baha'i friend of mine wrote me the following about his encounter with Billy Graham some thirty years. I thought I would share it with you. "At one (long) point in my northern sojourn I had a home just around the corner from KJNP AM "your 50,000 watt gospel voice of the north"...

Many of you may have seen the Free State of Jones which tells the story of Newton Knight who leads a rebellion against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi. Right now I'm watching a fascinating documentary on the Knight family on PBS. If you watched the movie you know he had two wives...

San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating “the scourge of anti-Islamic prejudice.” https://cnstopstories.com/2016/02/22/bishop-challenges-catholics-to-combat-ugly-tide-of-anti-islamic-bigotry/

Check this out: http://time.com/4323009/donald-trump-southern-baptist-russell-moore-evangelicals-christianity/ I rather like Russell Moore. He has worked to steer the SBC away from its racist origins and condemned predatory lending. My favorite quote from him: "The cross and the Confederate...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/pope-francis-washes-refugees-feet-easter-week-160324173339136.html God bless His Holiness!

No doubt many of you have heard about Wheaton provost's attempt to fire Dr. Larycia Hawkins, their only African American faculty member for stating that Muslims worship the same God as do Christians. She did this after donning a hijab to express her solidarity with Muslims after Jerry Falwell...

It seems most of the participants in the Oregon standoff are Mormons. Now I'm not suggesting that the Mormon Church is responsible for its wingnuts, but the Church does have a lot of power and authority in relationship to its membership. I would think it would be helpful at this point if the...

A lot of people here have suggested that what Islam needs is a Reformation. While I've pooh-poohed the idea, it was recently brought to my attention that Teddy Roosevelt had something to say on the topic over a hundred years ago. "He [Theodore Roosevelt] pronounced himself as wonderfully...

I keep coming across this quote most on pro-gun websites supposedly made by Hitler: "To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens" -Adolf Hitler Is there anyone here that can provide a legitimate source for this quote? If not, are the gun nuts making things up? Do they have to rely on lies...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/22/1462815/-This-is-what-bravery-looks-like-Muslims-shield-Christians-during-al-Shabaab-terrorist-attack?detail=email The Muslim women on the bus took off their hijabs and put them on the Christian women claiming everyone on board was a Christian. One...

They closed down your business because it wasn't open for Christmas:

Here is a weird one: http://www.wsj.com/articles/two-suspects-sold-bar-in-brussels-not-long-before-paris-attacks-1447863006 I think this demonstrates just how little to do with religion any of this is.

Those of you who converted from another religion, were any of you converted because a Christian 'exposed' the errors of your previous religion?

Back around Iranian Revolution the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Iran disappeared and is presumed dead. Subsequently a second National Spiritual Assembly was elected. The members of that Assembly were tried and executed. Recently a tape of that trial has surfaced. It was played...

There is a very interesting book out: Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report Saba Mahmood The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region.Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this...

The question was asked as to what was meant by continuing revelation or Progressive Revelation as Baha'is prefer to call it. Since the question was off-topic for that thread I thought I would post a new thread addressing that question. Continuing revelation is based on the premise that God...

Mind you, I am asking Mormons this question not Nicean Christians. I'd like to see a genuine discussion of Mormon beliefs and practices as defined by Mormons themselves, not its detractors. And I hope we will all observe the rule about not degrading, belittling or mocking the religion of others...

Hey Red Fox: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-francis-apologizes-for-catholic-churchs-offenses-against-indigenous-peoples_559f02aae4b096729155dd59 May not make up for canonizing Father Serra but it's something.