Join our immersive Discovery Week for a unique exploration of diverse #religions. Engage in talks, visit exclusive sites, and share meals with fellow participants. Transportation, meals, and donations are covered. worldreligions.ca/discovery-… #DiscoveryWeek

Muslim's celebrate Hijri New Year today, on June 16. The Islamic New Year marks the beginning of the lunar year however this date can vary according to lunar calculations. #HijriNewYear #IslamicNewYear #Muharram #Hijri1448

Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book. Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts. This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one. To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization — if the schools and universities won't teach the great books, we must form reading groups to study them ourselves. Every month, we read a new great work. We've covered texts like Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote. We're now reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We must study the ideas upon which the West was built if we are to preserve it. It takes effort to read these texts, and even more to read them well. Thats what we're doing, slowly, in dialogue with each other. If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group and consider a paid subscription. It makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. We are entirely funded by our members. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next athenaeumbooks.com/welcome Welcome!

I think it’s wrong for Harris - who positions himself as a man of reason and enlightenment values - to say he won’t debate opponents on an important and contentious issue (seemingly because they lack his morals or clarity). @sapinker should see this

RT @sapinker: Sam Harris explains: "Why I Won’t Debate Critics of Israel" open.substack.com/pub/samhar…

Non-believers come from many backgrounds. This week, we interview Daniel Dacombe, a former seminary student and devout Christian who left the faith and found a home in humanism. Read about his journey and path here: mailchi.mp/worldreligions/wh…

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Religious Literacy and the Welcoming Workplace with Municipality of Chatham-Kent. Religious literacy strengthens inclusive workplaces and communities. #ReligiousLiteracy #InclusiveWorkplace #InterfaithDialogue

Thank you to everyone who joined Week of World Religions (Road Scholar, June 1–5). In 5 days online we explored Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam & Judaism through classes, interviews, and Q&A. #EncounterWorldReligions #RoadScholar #WorldReligions

Grateful to be part of a panel on Leo Van Arragon’s new book, Reflections on Religious Literacy—a timely look at why religious literacy matters in our schools and public life, especially in polarized times. Thanks to Peter Schuurman for organizing and to all who joined.

Excellent podcast about what education should be

Thank you to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Durham for inviting Encounter World Religions to Sacred Texts. We explored how sacred writings shape history, meaning, and moral imagination across traditions. Grateful for the thoughtful exchange. #ReligiousLiteracy

Horrible

This is well done by the Globe and long overdue. @Aaronpete_ take a bow.

Globe editorial: There is no reconciliation without truth theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…

May 28 marks the Bahá’í observance of the Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh, commemorating the 1892 passing of Bahá’u’lláh, founder and prophet of the Bahá’í Faith. #Bahai #BahaiFaith #Interfaith

Many encounter Buddhism through mindfulness apps and stress reduction. But does that miss the Buddha’s original path? For Vesak, Mona Zhang of Toronto’s Agama Meditation Centre discusses ethics, study, insight & meditation: mailchi.mp/worldreligions/wh…

It is actually impressive that the CBC managed to publish an entire story about posters of a missing Jewish girl being torn down without actually printing the word. Are posters being torn down because people don’t like the font? CBC literally doesn’t say!!

This Sikh was denied the chance to write an entrance exam for a Canadian police service due to his kirpan (ceremonial dagger). The police service is moving to fix this. Religious literacy is so valuable for police. Things are improving but work remains cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/…

This is a very good piece on tracking sex molesters and offenders within the LDS Church. It highlights strengths and weaknesses. Every religious body needs to take these issues seriously as revelations in recent decades have made clear. sltrib.com/religion/2026/05/…

Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) is Islam’s 2nd Eid—and the most holy. It honours Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice in obedience to God and takes place at the end of Hajj. Greeting: Eid Mubarak “blessed Eid”. In workplaces, it deserves equal attention. worldreligions.ca/resources

Would the @CBCAlerts , @globeandmail or really anyone in the media please investigate this? It’s not even mentioned in anywhere in the news. Horrific stuff. Please don’t wait until someone is hurt.