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Judaism & Israel ·
What does it mean to be Jewish? The simplest honest answer is that Jewishness is a form of historically continuous peoplehood with religious, ancestral, ethnic, cultural, familial, legal, and communal dimensions. A…
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Judaism & Israel ·
The debate over modern Israel vs biblical Israel often begins with a shared name and ends with conclusions that the name cannot carry. The State of Israel stands in the land where Abraham sojourned,…
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World Religions ·
What do Hindus believe? The shortest honest answer is that Hinduism contains several related but genuinely different answers. Many Hindus believe in an ultimate reality called Brahman, a moral order shaped by karma…
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World Religions ·
Buddhism is more than meditation. It is a family of religious traditions shaped by the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha, scriptures, monastic communities, teachers, rituals, ethical disciplines, and many centuries of…
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World Religions ·
Death is not the only question. The deeper question is what kind of future, if any, follows it. Does an enduring self take another body? Does a karmically conditioned process continue without…
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World Religions ·
Islam is often discussed before it is understood. News, political conflict, and arguments on social media can make a worldwide religious tradition look like a single attitude or culture. That is no…
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World Religions ·
The easiest religious comparison is usually the least fair. A chart can make Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity look simple enough to sort in a few rows: founder, book, God, salvation,…
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Discernment Lab ·
UFOs used to be easy to dismiss as fringe culture. That is harder now. Military reports, public records, congressional attention, government offices, documentaries, contact…
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