Patriotic coverage helps forge the Olympics’ sense of community, weaving viewers’ lives together with athletes’ struggles…
Officials have vowed to keep fighting for permission to open the school as a charter – which would be a controversial…
Many in Nepal are protesting to bring back the Hindu monarchy, which was dissolved in 2008. A scholar of South Asian religions…
The use of sport as an evangelical tool is not new for the Catholic Church. Pope Pius X welcomed athletes in 1905 for the…
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public…
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising…
Catholic theologians and monastics have always encouraged humor, emphasizing its power to heal and bring cultures together.
More than 2,000 letters between the two founders are available online. Many attest to their deep commitment to religious…
Spiritual leaders’ own pain often goes unnoticed as they tend to their community’s challenges.
The Edmonton Oilers are more than a hockey team. In some ways, they symbolize devotion to a way of life − and one of Canada’s…
Structures aligned with solar events served various purposes: science, farming, religion and even politics.
A historian of astronomy writes about the role of astronomical events in Indigenous cultures − and also the exploitation…
A scholar who studies Southern Baptists explains why the denomination’s ultraconservative beliefs about women remain the…
The Supreme Court has twice weighed in on ‘release time’ policies, and many states allow districts to implement them.
Lawson learned in India how to resist racism and subsequently trained his students on the systematic use of nonviolence…
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public…
Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish…
On Flag Day, a historian of religions in America explains how Pledge of Allegiance, which honors the American flag, is part…
Many factors shape an individual’s risk for falling prey to deception, including where and how they are targeted.
A researcher explains how couples can create a sense of ‘our money’ while keeping a sense of financial autonomy.