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Patheos is a non-denominational, non-partisan online media company providing information and commentary from various religious and nonreligious perspectives.
Upon its launch in May 2009, the website was primarily geared toward learning about religions through a reference library and other peer-reviewed resources on 27 global religions and worldviews. In its current form, the site also hosts more than 450 blogs in eleven "Faith Channels," offering commentary and news from these perspectives in topics including politics, institutions, culture, sacred texts, history, lifestyle, entertainment, family life, and business. Patheos is the largest English language religion and spirituality site in the world, while the Catholic, Progressive Christian, Nonreligious, and Pagan Channels constitute the largest web presence for their respective traditions. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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Search ArticlesJesus and Lao Tzu: Allowing Your Enemies
Jesus said, “Love your enemies,” which sounds like idealism until you watch what hate does when it’s resisted with more hate: it multiplies. The Tao does not challenge. It does not provoke. It offers a way of peace. (Image created by Gregory T. Smith on OpenAI) Love doesn’t excuse harm; it interrupts the cycle. There’s a parallel kind of insight in the Tao: what’s over-tightened snaps; what’s over-extended collapses. Allowing isn’t surrender to evil, it’s refusing to feed it.
Did You Hear What She Said? Female Christian Heavy Metal
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Monday Miscellany, 7/27/26
Back to war. Socialist candidates are now more popular than MAGA candidates. And Ray Keating, author of spy-turned-Lutheran-pastor thrillers, dies. Back to War The ceasefire and the peace negotiations in the Iran War are over, having come unglued because of continued Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, so we’re back to fighting in a war that no one seems to want but that we can’t get out of.
The Evangelical Brand Image Crisis
Take a pick from examples of the evangelical brand image crisis. Just go over to the Roys Report and select one. This first-rate site of investigative journalism has become the landing page for every fraught crisis and scandal in the evangelical church. And there is enough scandal to require ongoing coverage on a day-to-day basis. Julie Roys took her journalistic experience and honed it for a reckoning. But why? Her personal experience at Moody Bible Institute fueled her resolve.
Hypocrisy In The Hierarchy: When Bishops Fail Their Flock
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Mardin on the Margins
The city of Mardin is located in Turkiye but very close to the border with Syria. During the Syrian war, many Syrian orthodox Christians fled to Mardin and Midyat, which was even closer to the border, and took refuge in the Orthodox monasteries in those two cities. With the war over, many have gone back to Syria, but the monasteries are still alive and well.
The Rapture, The Closet, And The Organ
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The Cosmic Jury: Part II – Cross-Examining the Architect
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Is John 3:16 Easy Believism?
Is John 3:16 about “easy believism”? The New King James Version puts the most famous verse in Scripture this way: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The Greek verb for “believes” here is pisteuô (πιστεύω). Its noun is often translated as “faith” (pistis).