Religion

Time of atonement?

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 February 2010

The monotheistic religions have their times set apart from ordinary time to reflect on how we humans, individually and personally, are doing in the struggle to conform our lives to align better with God’s will. It’s the ‘mystery of faith’ that is knowable only within human limitations. Each one…Yom Kippur, Ramadan, Lent…involve repentance, prayer and fasting. It's time to check in again...

Religious restrictions in the name of freedom?

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 February 2010

This happened during the Enlightenment. Nations and states and societies with short memories, or the gullibility to succumb to revisionist history, are letting it happen again. Even where people are not losing their faith, they’re losing their rights to freely express their religiously informed voices.