Yom HaShoah, which falls on April 17-18, 2023, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
Like Halloween and Christmas, today’s Easter traditions are a blend of Christian and non-Christian influences.
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is still resisting the culture of violence.
Donkeys and palm leaves are both associated with Christianity’s Palm Sunday – but their symbolism couldn’t be more…
The Passover Seder has tradition and remembrance at its core, but has also evolved throughout the centuries in Jewish communities…
Religious pluralism and social justice were at the core of King’s campaigns – a vision shaped by influences as diverse…
Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
Joseph Smith encouraged early Latter-day Saints to pool their resources. Two centuries later, one of the results is an investment…
Mindfulness is everywhere in pop culture today, but that doesn’t mean people agree on what it means.
Communal meals to break fast can mean lots of single-use plastics. A switch to environmentally friendly principles is in…
Federal law protects students’ rights to request some religious accommodations, including during the month of Ramadan
Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with…
Badges and other wearable markings had a long history of being used to target Jewish people in Europe.
Several members were killed March 9, 2023, in Germany. Many people hold stereotypes about Jehovah’s Witnesses but are…
‘I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much…
The use of AI and robotic technology in worship is raising profound questions about its long-term consequences. Will it…
From family to grassroots activists, these are some of the women who shaped MLK’s vision and campaigns.
Two social scientists explain how caste-identities are pervasive in not just Hinduism but other South Asian faith groups…
A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be…