Hold up. I don’t get the title. Religious illiteracy (in this post) is defined as a lack of understanding about 1) the basic tenets of the world’s religious traditions; 2) the diversity of expressions and beliefs within traditions that emerge and …
The One Where…
Get ready to pretend you’re in the middle of Bravo’s Watch What Happens! LIVE because today’s post is going to wrap up all the fun, craziness and cat fights science stuff that went down in January! Ok, so maybe Prayers …
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Religion Acts As Buffer for High Risk Depression
If you read last Thursday’s post, you know spiritual involvement affects depression in a major way: A review of 444 quantitative research studies, spanning 50 years, found that religious/spiritual involvement lessened the incidence of depression and/or reduced depression severity in …
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Religion and Depression Statistics
For a detailed review of all the statistics in this study, check out: Religion Acts As Buffer for High Risk Depression! (Highly recommended! You’ll never believe some of this stuff!)
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Neurosurgeon Says Heaven is Real
Before suffering a week-long coma in 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander (an academic neurosurgeon who has taught at Harvard Medical School) always believed that “there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death” …
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Spirituality and Health Studies
The Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health offers a great research citation list (click here to visit). I’m looking forward to reviewing all of the studies, but for now here are some of the ones that caught my …
