I was traveling on a plane from San Francisco to Los Angeles a few years ago. I was sitting next to the window, reading a Christian book. The man next to me, obviously from the Eastern hemisphere, asked, "Are you a religious man?" "Well, yes," I said. "I am too," he responded. We began talking about religion. In the middle of the conversation I asked, "Can you give me a one-liner that captures the ...

Sometimes the uniqueness of the revealed Word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ is seen most clearly when contrasted with other spiritual beliefs.

Lauding the Dalai Lama as one of the world's 100 most influential leaders, author Deepak Chopra wrote in Time magazine:

The most inspiring thing [the Dalai Lama] ever told me was to ignore all organized faiths and keep to the road of higher consciousness. ...

In the film The Bucket List, Edward (Jack Nicholson) and Carter (Morgan Freeman) are both terminally ill. Doctors have given them about one year to live, so they make a list of things they always wanted to do before they "kicked the bucket"—and go about doing them, one by one. The list includes skydiving, racing vintage Mustangs, and seeing the wonders of the world. In this scene, Edward and ...

A 2005 poll, conducted by Newsweek and Beliefnet, asked: "What is your current religion?"

Evangelical Protestant—33 percent
Non-Evangelical Protestant—25 percent
Roman Catholic—22 percent
Other Christian—5 percent
Jewish—1 percent
Muslim—1 percent
Other, non-Christian—3 percent
Atheist/Agnostic—6 percent
Religion undesignated—4 percent

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Like her television show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," actress Sarah Michelle Gellar's personal spirituality borrows from a hodgepodge of religions. "I consider myself a spiritual person," she told Scotland's Daily Record. "I believe in an idea of God, although it's my own personal ideal. I find most religions interesting, and I've been to every kind of denomination: Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist. ...

Pluralists contend that no one religion can know the fullness of spiritual truth, and therefore all religions are valid. But while it is good to acknowledge our limitations, this statement is itself a strong assertion about the nature of spiritual truth.

A common analogy is cited—the blind men trying to describe an elephant. One feels the tail and reports that an elephant is thin and flexible. Another ...

While studying my way through a Ph.D program, I worked part time as the book review editor for a large website devoted to religion, spirituality, and morality. Beliefnet.com is multifaith. It has articles that would be of interest to evangelicals, Mormons, Reconstructionist Jews, Wiccans, Baha'is, Hindus, and just about everyone else on the planet.

I started this job with the naïve assumption that ...

In a spring 2002 poll, those who call themselves Christians in the U.S. were asked, "Which [of the following] statement[s] comes closer to your own views?" They replied:

The religion you practice is the only true religion: 19 percent
All religions have elements of truth: 77 percent
Don't know/not applicable/refused: 4 percent

PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly/U.S. News & World Report poll conducted ...

According to a May 2002 article in U.S. News & World Report, the percentage of those who call themselves Christians in the U.S. who say their impression of Islam is "somewhat favorable" or "very favorable": 34 percent.

In Christian Reader, Ajith Fernando writes:

Bilquis Sheikh, a Muslim woman from Pakistan, was sitting at her grandson's bedside in the hospital. As she waited for test results to come back, her grandson's doctor, who was also a nun, stopped in the room. The doctor was surprised to see the Muslim grandmother with a Bible. As the two talked, Madame Sheikh admitted to Dr. Santiago that she had been searching ...