Have you ever wondered how the mystical crystal ball became the symbol of fortune-telling? The practice of fortune-telling ...

Wood, as a material, possesses remarkable qualities that resonate with the symbolism of the cross. Its natural resilience and ...

Pau Cin Hau dreamt of an alphabet for a language that had never been written down. So began the religion of Laipianism ...

Tom Haviv designed a new flag, featuring a hamsa, for a potential binational Israeli-Palestinian state. Then came Oct. 7.

The practice of placing objects under one's pillow, rooted in cultural and spiritual beliefs, involves using items like ...

While many might be turning away from organizational religion, they are not closed off from spirituality and power," Gabe Poirot, a Christian ... search for more meaning in an age of uncertainty.

What Bernanos has done is to prove again, for the 20th Century, the psychological power of religious ... all Western, Christian society. Joan of Arc serves him for a symbol of France—peasant ...

In the autumn of 1974, as former president Richard Nixon resigned and the US was still entrenched in the Vietnam War, Cyd Chartier and her parents were introduced to the fundamentalist religious ...

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12. A coalition of Christian religious organizations, which includes Catholic and Anglican nuns, are suing the state of New York over a regulation designed to force organizations to cover ...

The extensions of state power to the criminalization of historic flags and symbols misunderstands the meaning of liberty. Liberty includes people’s right to say things we might not want to hear, to ...

At issue is the Hilliard-based organization LifeWise Academy, which buses students once a week off-site for Christian religious instruction. At its meeting tonight, Westerville’s school board ...