So the word from the Pew Research Center is that “religious voters appear to be gradually gravitating toward Barack Obama as their pick for president.” While Obama is edging out McCain among the mainline Protestant demographic, apparently, “McCain still holds an advantage over his rival among white evangelical Protestant voters,” says the CNN article about…

Well, apparently, keeping everyone from having a simultaneous spiritual, emotional, and physical breakdown, that’s what. At least according to the New York Times. In a recent article, “Staying Healthy in a Sick Economy,” reporter Mandy Katz had this to say about apparent the (economic) healing powers of yoga: “On Wall Street, when the going gets…

I’ve heard Neil Diamond’s music before and loved it. But I never thought it’d be time to call him Reverend Neil! Let me explain. What do you do when you’re 67 years old, on a world-wide tour, after having lost your voice on one stop and having been on the road for most of the…

Just the other day I wrote about the hot trend of kosher cellphones in the ultra-Orthodox communities of Israel, asking if keeping users from potentially questionable secular cellphone technology, such as texting and internet access, was the best way to maintain a person’s faith. Wouldn’t allowing a potential peek at temptation and the resistance to…

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