The deadly Jan. 1, 2025, attack in New Orleans serves as a reminder of the persistent threat to the U.S. from individuals inspired by extremist Islamist groups.
A century after Hubble’s discovery, our neighbor galaxies suggest a creator’s mind
When you look into the night sky, the naked eye can only make out 2,500 to 3,000 stars, five planets and maybe one to three galaxies, and that’s assuming ideal atmospheric conditions and the right location. That has been enough…
What Dostoevsky Taught Me About Sending My Son to College
This spring, our oldest son will graduate from high school. We have spent the last several months guiding him through what feels like endless writing and rewriting of application essays and supplemental essays, screening colleges, and planning visits.
‘I couldn’t feel God’: How past trauma can interfere with current faith
As a little girl, Diana Gourley faced more abusive pain at the hands of teenagers and adults than many people do their entire lives. But until recently, this devoted woman of faith saw little connection between these earlier agonizing experiences…
Despite Attacks, an Underground Church for L.G.B.T.Q. Africans Thrives
For nearly a decade, Kenya’s only church led and attended by L.G.B.T.Q. people has been chased out of one location after another. Vandals hit the first location, a center for sex workers, church members said.
Guatemalan authorities take 160 minors from extremist Lev Tahor sect after abuse allegations
Authorities in Guatemala raided the compound of Lev Tahor, an extremist Jewish sect, and removed 160 children and teenagers after allegations of abuse and human trafficking.
Religion Will Be Crucial As Post-Assad Syria Seeks Restoration
Syria’s 54-year dictatorship under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, now exiled in Russia, was one of the world’s most despised regimes.
Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting – a philosopher shares 3 strategies to help you attain the good life
Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get to school.
German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules
A German court has ruled that an 85-year-old woman and her son who live in a property sold under duress by its Jewish owners in 1939 must give up their home.
How American converts complicate Syrian Orthodox Christians’ future
In Christianity’s early centuries, Syria became one of the faith’s main intellectual centers, producing some of its most important leaders and thinkers. At the beginning of the country’s civil war in 2011, nearly 1,400 years after the conquest of Byzantine…
Egypt’s Redemption—and Ours
The Christmas story is not a story of peace and quiet but a tale of tumult and danger.
Why Scholars Should Take Accounts of Supernatural Phenomena Seriously — And How it Might Save the Humanities
For a decade and a half, Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal has been advocating for the field of religious studies to not only take reports of alien abductions and visits from the dead as seriously as accounts of miracles, but to ask very different questions…