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Long, long ago, in the Dreamtimes, the Rainbow Serpent awakened from the depths of the earth. As he rose and uncoiled himself, valleys, mountains and canyons formed. As he slithered about his domain, lakes, rivers and creeks appeared in his wake, providing life-giving water to the new animals of the birthing earth. If you watch the […]

At around noontime, on Thursday, March 20, 1924, Ron Hubbard met in the West Wing of the White House the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge. Many young boys of the 1920s, seeing photos of the President greeting youngsters in the photogravure section of their newspapers, dreamed of doing the same. For Hubbard, […]

He raised his hands and asked the 110,000 faithful packing the stadium to pray with him for the three-year-old toddler who couldn’t walk without heavy braces on his legs. Within moments his mother removed the braces and the child freely ran, laughing, up and down the aisles. It was 1954 and American preacher Tommy Hicks […]

For nearly a millennium, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Vatican have been engaged in what may be the longest-running ecumenical argument in history. A significant aspect of this divide is the calendar dispute—the Orthodox Church adheres to the Julian calendar, while Western Christianity follows the Gregorian calendar. This disagreement has turned time […]

On May 1, by an overwhelming margin of 692-51, United Methodist Church (UMC) delegates repealed the longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy. At the first meeting of the UMC’s General Conference in five years, the delegates removed a rule prohibiting “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained as ministers. Applause greeted the vote, a testament to the […]

Life is everywhere, say the followers of Shinto. The sanctified and blessed may be found in animals, in plants, as well as in things that appear to have no life in them at all, such as a pebble or a waterfall. Shintoism, Japan’s indigenous religion, has been dated as far back the neolithic age. Artifacts […]

Buddha was not the only holy man teaching in India around the 5th century B.C.E. At the same time, one called Mahavira was also accumulating disciples for a religion that had predated him by, some say, 5,000 years or more, but which marks its historic beginnings with him: Jainism. Jainism and Buddhism have their similarities. […]

On July 16, 1945, in a desert in New Mexico, American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer witnessed the culmination of the project he had led for nearly four years: the first successful test detonation of an atomic bomb, the deadliest weapon ever devised. The first thought Oppenheimer had while watching it came from the ancient […]

Scientology Network rolls out its new season with a three-hour special. It airs Monday, April 15, at 8 p.m. E.T./P.T. and throughout the U.S., Canada, and Latin America at corresponding times. For every other time zone, the special airs tomorrow, April 16, at 8 p.m.—with all network shows available in 17 languages. Among the shows […]

If you live on this planet, the odds are about one in three that you are a Christian. The most populous religion on earth, Christianity is necessarily also one of the most diverse, spanning continents, cultures and races in a kaleidoscope of colors, beliefs and practices as multifarious as the world itself. Yet within the […]