faith

These thoughts have been inspired by a lot that has been said in various posts across SPN and at home. What is blind faith? Is it right? Is it helpful? Most importantly, is it the Guru’s way? The Mool Mantar describes God, therefore, I know exactly what I am believing in: ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ...

Concerns about the separatist and divisive nature of “faith schools” are being raised around the country as the Government’s “free schools” initiative opens the doors to many more. In Leicester, the first Hindu “faith school” is to open in September 2011 as a “free school”. The Krishna-Avanti...

What does your religion mean to you? I suggest that on religious festivals after performing expected rituals, people should spend a little time — about half-an-hour — in silence and ask themselves: "What does my religion really mean to me?" Hindus could do this on Ram Navmi or Diwali, Muslims...

In one of the opening scenes of a light-hearted new film about Sikhism, the young filmmakers pose a challenge: If every Sikh could educate 300 people about the religion, then awareness of the faith would be a reality. The filmmakers, 16-year-old twins Rasna Kaur Neelam and Harnek Singh...

Discrimination against different faiths is more of a problem than racial discrimination, said members of a new interfaith project in West London. Racial differences once formed the basis of prejudice in Britain, but project members said that religion now plays a more important role. Speaking...

Forwarded by SPN member Tejwant Singh ji Malik By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Adding faith to the exercise regimen of African-American women may prompt them to be more fit, a UCLA study shows. Researchers studying black women from three Los Angeles churches who...

The attack on Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in June 1984 caused the death of thousands of innocent Sikhs, and left Panjab under Military rule for a decade. During the attack, thousands of Sikhs in the Indian Military immediately left their barracks and marched towards Amritsar to defend their...

Father JOHN JILLIONS is a professor in the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at Saint Paul University. Traditionally, the priest is called to the home or hospital on the day of the birth to say special prayers for the mother and child. We ask God to restore the mother’s...

Dear Gurmukh Loko, Perhaps, I can try and help here with the little budhi, I have collected from here and there..I once many moons ago, explained this to similarly inquiste people.. For a Sikh, the iron bangle is an emblem of Justice and equality and fairness.A ring or a bracelet has all...

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Faith schools only serve to alienate members of society September 8, 2010 by Hannah Davies ~ The Journal Source: Sep 8 2010: AS CHILDREN...

A national Sikh organization came out in support Tuesday of a Seattle convenience store clerk attacked in an apparent hate crime. According to police, 35-year-old Seattle resident Brock Stainbrook derided the Queen Anne clerk as being a terrorist after punching him in the head during...

How do the positions of men and women differ in your faith tradition? How are we to understand the seemingly subordinate position that many religions impose upon women By Balpreet Singh, Citizen expert Read more...

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- During July I traveled in Bangladesh and India with six ministers from Birmingham as part of an Institute for Clergy Excellence program to explore how people from different cultures and faiths connect with the divine. Our group included two Baptists, a Presbyterian, a Roman...

Saturday, August 7, 2010 Punjabi Pictionary, turban tying and Sikh history Jeopardy! are all part of the program at Sikh Camp this summer. The eight-day religious camp encourages campers ages 6 to 19 to follow the Sikh way of life, a 500-year-old religious tradition that began in India...

Article of Faith by Major-Gen. KULWANT SINGH (Retd.) During World Wars I and II, 83,055 Sikh soldiers laid down their lives, and 1,09,045 were wounded while fighting as part of British Indian Army. All of them wore turbans without exception, refusing to wear steel helmets...

One of my jobs as a teacher of bright, mostly Catholic undergraduates is to get them thinking about why they hold their religious beliefs. It’s easy enough to spark discussion about the problem of evil (“Can you really read the newspaper everyday and continue to believe in an all-perfect...

Albert Einstein's famous equation, E=mc², remains difficult for me to grasp fully. But I feel I have come to understand something of the man -- his expansive spirit, his relentless curiosity, and his reverence for the beauty and order of nature and thought. I was daunted as I...

Ordination of women priests a crime against faith: Vatican AFP, Jul 15, 2010, 05.54pm IST <!-- google_ad_section_start -->VATICAN CITY: The ordination of women as Roman Catholic priests is a "crime against the faith," the Vatican said Thursday as it issued a raft of new disciplinary...

By Harbans Lal - Nirmal Singh Kalsi was an outstanding scholar of Gurmat symbol philosophy. His real love was to serve and disseminate the message of his guru, Guru Granth Sahib. While fighting progressive cancer, he spent the last few years of his life searching and articulating the...