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Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids
Are tracking technologies changing parenting?Trendsetter ImagesThe use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now apps to monitor...
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What's behind the belief in a soulmate?
Many people believe in the idea of a soulmate - one person who will make us whole and happy.fizkesThe United States appears to be in a romantic slump. Marriage rates have plummeted over the last...
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There is more than one religious view on abortion - here's what Jewish texts say
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey discusses a bill that would virtually outlaw abortion in the state.AP Photo/Blake PatersonAlabama’s governor signed a bill recently that criminalizes nearly all abortions,...
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The Catholic Church is tightening rules on reporting sexual abuse – but not...
Pope Francis recently made it mandatory for clergy to report sexual abuse to church superiors. AP Photo/Andrew MedichiniPope Francis recently changed the Catholic Church law, making it mandatory for...
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The history of China's Muslims and what's behind their persecution
A delegate in traditional Uighur dress listens to a speaker during a meeting with delegates from China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in Beijing,AP Photo/Mark SchiefelbeinOver 1 million Uighur...
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Trump and the problem with pardons
As a veteran, I was astonished by the recent news that President Trump may be considering pardons for U.S. military members accused or convicted of war crimes. But as a scholar who studies the U.S....
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India's Prime Minister Modi pursues politics of Hindu nationalism – what does...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is garlanded after winning the elections.AP Photo/Manish SwarupAlmost immediately after winning a second term in office on May 23, India’s Prime Minister Modi gave a...
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What Israel's new election reveals about the struggle over Jewishness
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, FileBenjamin Netanyahu has hit a snag that could derail his chances of...
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Hate crimes associated with both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have a long...
At a 2016 Trump rally, a man holds up a sign, 'Islamophobia is not the answer.'AP Photo/Sue OgrockiCongresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted recently that “Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are two sides of the...
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What is Eid and how do Muslims celebrate it? 6 questions answered
Muslim women at a prayer service at a mosque in Redmond, Washington, to mark the end of Ramadan and the start of Eid-al-Fitr in 2016.AP Photo/Ted S. WarrenEditor’s note: Muslims all over the world will...
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Women have been the heart of the Christian right for decades
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signing a bill that virtually outlaws abortion in the state.Hal Yeager/Alabama Governor's Office via APAlabama’s new abortion restrictions were signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey....
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The struggle to find silence in the ancient monastic world – and now
Monasticism developed, in part, because people were seeking silence.Mario MifsudIn our contemporary world, noise pollution has reached dangerous levels. The World Health Organization has argued that...
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What Orwell's '1984' tells us about today's world, 70 years after it was...
The dominant reading of George Orwell's dystopian novel, "1984" has been that it was a dire prediction of what could be. Denis Hamel Côté, CC BY-SASeventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a...
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So, what really is jihad?
This term ‘jihad’ can include various forms of nonviolent struggles: for instance, the struggle to become a better person.AP Photo/Lynne SladkyOften, many people conflate the terms jihad and terrorism....
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Maryland 'Peace Cross' ruling: The Supreme Court rules that a cross stands...
The 40-foot Peace Cross in Maryland dedicated to World War I soldiers.Maryland GovPics/Flickr, CC BYThe Supreme Court ruled on June 20 that a war memorial in Maryland in the shape of a Christian cross...
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Not all Americans have a fair path to a good death – racial disparities are real
Not everyone has a chance to die in peace and dignity.What does it mean to “die well”?The world got an idea recently from the 92-year-old Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who...
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Should Southern Baptist women be preachers? A centuries old controversy finds...
Members at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in 2017, in PhoenixAP Photo/Ross D. FranklinSouthern Baptists are arguing again over the role women should play in the church.Following a tweet...
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I went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti
Haiti's black saint known as Grann Sainte Anne Charitable in her European Catholic form and Ti Saint Anne, in Vodoo form.Guilberly Louissaint, CC BYIn July, hundreds of pilgrims will make their way to...
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Al-Qaida is stronger today than it was on 9/11
Yemen's al-Qaida branch, called al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is the most dangerous and sophisticated offshoot of the terror group Osama bin Laden founded in Afghanistan in 1988. AP Photo/Hani...
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How the Dalai Lama is chosen and why China wants to appoint its own
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama sits on his ceremonial chair at Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India.AP Photo/Ashwini BhatiaThe 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet,...
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