While the Shrines of Lourdes, Fatima, Aparecida and Guadalupe are widely known sites of miracles and Marian apparitions, there are hundreds of supernatural reports every year. Since the 1950s only six cases have been officially investigated by the Vatican, meaning that most cases “were either handled differently or just not handled at all,” the statement read. Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Read MoreMany of the T-shirts and hats that were worn and sold at the rally in March proclaimed religious slogans such as “Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president” and “God, Guns & Trump.” One man’s shirt declared, “Make America Godly Again,” with the image of a luminous Jesus putting his supportive hands on Trump’s shoulders. (Smith, AP News)
Read More[Association of Related Churches] functions as a startup accelerator, providing money and mentoring in exchange for a continuing cut of church revenues that it invests in opening new churches.
Similar entrepreneurial networks are sprouting new, largely nondenominational places of worship at a time when many traditional church congregations are shrinking. (Rocca, Campo-Flores, & Flores, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MorePlanet Fitness has been in turmoil since September, when it ousted its longtime CEO, Chris Rondeau. The company’s troubles took a turn on March 11, when a woman at a Planet Fitness in Alaska took a photo of a transgender club member shaving facial hair in the women’s locker room—and posted it on social media. (Maloney, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreYoung Sheldon’s portrait of the Christian-atheist divide conforms to old clichés about these two groups. We still associate religion with less education and secularism with more education; faith with emotion and atheism with logic; faith with women and atheism with men. (Holmes, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThe Biden administration announced Thursday it had initiated the formal rulemaking process to reschedule marijuana to Schedule III from its Schedule I designation that it has held for more than 50 years. The announcement follows the Department of Justice’s announcement last month that it planned to proceed with rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III, which the Department of Health and Human Services had recommended last year. (Choi, The Hill)
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