FāVS News News and Commentary about Religion and Ethics in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
Conflicts between science and religion — perhaps more accurately, between practitioners of these great fields of endeavor — have been around throughout history.
Read More »Religion & Science: Comrades in Arms Against Ignorance
Why So Many Religions? Or Are There?
Why would God -- all-knowing, all-loving -- create what has evolved into countless divisions sharing many common beliefs, yet disagreeing, even fighting, over others?
Read More »Freedom of Marriage: a Plight and Dream for Millions
What happens when a Muslim and a Hindu in India fall in love? MacKenzie Bills, a Fulbright English Teacher Assistant, shares what she learned.
Read More »Do we need political chaos to finally care?
In the whirlwind pace of news, outrage, and defensive walls of the past six weeks, many American Christians are struggling with what their beliefs mean when applied to the democracy-based republic form of government.
Read More »Freeing religion from ethnicity: what I learned in Malaysia
MacKenzie Bills, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia, discusses the problem of conflating religion and ethnicity, and how it endangers true freedom of religion.
Read More »Viewpoints: Defining religion
How do you define religion?
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