“Silence spoken here.” I first read this phrase in reference to the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Kentucky. Silence has been spoken there for more than 175 years. It has been spoken ...

The February moon is capacious enough for carnival, lion dances, and taraweeh prayers; for dumplings, dates, and ...

In The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho shows how political corruption and violence create an atmosphere of dread—along with situations so confusing they are ...

Guy DebordA child plots her life till the endthen spends the rest of her daystrying to remember itCities like rooms in ...

The temptations Satan places before Jesus are justly famous: he invites the famished Jesus to turn stones into bread, dares ...

Udi Greenberg’s history of the ecumenical movement locates the errors—such as colonialism—that underlaid the project from ...

In many ways, celibacy was a way of escaping the patriarchal confines of matrimony. Febos writes that these women who were ...

Danced religion is identified with two outcomes. First, people who have been rejected and dehumanized by the world recover ...

Thousands of onlookers gathered at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday to see and hear from the Buddhist monks who have ...

Unemployment provided her time to improve her operation and move it from her kitchen to her garage; she hired her teenage son ...

However, I find myself deeply troubled that the most publicized deaths at the hands of ICE remain the White American victims, citizens who chose to exercise their freedom of speech with an ...

Jesse Jackson Sr., a longtime civil rights activist who twice vied for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s, died February 17 at age 84.A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson was ...