The South China Sea is of strategic and economic importance to Beijing and the US, setting up a potential power struggle…
Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict the types of social…
Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions…
Effective altruism, often called ‘EA,’ is closely linked to utilitarian philosophy and calls for donors to carefully…
Arab American Heritage Month is becoming more well-known, but the simple words ‘Arab American’ encompass a wide array…
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…