IF YOU THINK
a large-screen TV will buy you happiness, think again—US and Canadian researchers say money can't buy happiness, but giving to others can.
with contributions from Daniela Perdomo, Anjana Pasricha
TEN PROMINENT JOURNALISTS from the United States and the United Kingdom have been selected for the fourth annual Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science and Religion.
The Outreach Division
of Guideposts, with over 50 years' experience interactively answering tens of thousands of prayer requests weekly, is dynamically restructuring the online component of its prayer ministry by launching OurPrayer.
with contributions from Erin Mussolum, Priscila Mosqueda
EXPLORING [RELIGION'S] CENTRAL ROLE
in Canadian history and in the everyday lives of many Canadians prompted a group of scholars from Langley's own Trinity Western University to create the appropriately named Religion in Canada Institute.
with contributions from Samantha Marshall, Tamara McLean, Josh Roselman
Though there's no precise way
of tracking the trend, religious groups that provide services to office workers report increases of 30 percent to 50 percent in the number of participants over the past year
with contributions from G. Jeffrey MacDonald, L. Gregory Jones
A SURVEY
released last week of 1,400 US adults who haven't attended religious services in six months found that 72 percent nevertheless believe that "God, a higher or supreme being, actually exists.
with contributions from Adelle M. Banks, Adam Louis
WILLOW CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH,
the suburban Chicago megachurch that has become a model for some of the nation's largest churches, started more than a quarter-century ago by asking the question: Why don't people go to church?
