Claims about Columbus being Sephardic have bubbled up for decades. Early in the 20th century, some immigrant groups hoped…
America holds a unique place in the faith’s teachings, but awareness of the church’s often precarious place in US culture…
A biblical scholar traces how images of the ‘city of God’ have shaped American culture – especially when it comes…
On July 4, 1891, Oklahoman farmer Oscar Weber Bilby served his neighbors the very first hamburgers on buns.
In the mid-19th century, photographs with ghostlike figures became collectible amusements thanks to the invention of the…
The soldiers and patriots who made the American Revolution a success included people whose faiths faced discrimination,…
The US has a long history of blasphemy laws, which reflect the complex fight for freedom of religion and speech.
The Lubavitch movement, also called Chabad, shares many beliefs and traditions with other ultra-Orthodox Jews. Yet its outreach…
Dogs appeared several times during testimonies typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would…
Women’s formal involvement in bishops’ synods has grown slowly over the decades. Even when they were excluded, Catholic…
Early Christian texts reveal how the birth of Christ reflected ideas of the day − in some illustrations, midwives helped…
Many US states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy…
Evangelicals are often regarded as a uniform, monolithic group − but there are differences within their politics and social…
Once a source of unity, anguish over the hostages is now one more source of sharp divides in Israeli politics.
Your identity is not the result of a single decision, but rather the confluence of several factors.
Ninety years ago, Greenberg had a momentous decision to make: Should he play baseball on Yom Kippur?
Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing,…
Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of US stage and screen for 100 years.
Ancient Maya peoples knew that human beings are not independent from nature but part of it.
The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over…