Extremist Christian groups are coming out of the woodwork. By Alex Henderson / 07.19.2018 President Donald Trump—despite...
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By Tristan D. Vick / 10.11.2017 A Short Recap of the Ignostic Position Ignosticism is the philosophical...
FDR / Library of Congress By Dr. Gene Zubovich / 03.22.2016 Visiting Lecturer in History University of...
Family members pray in front of a Buddhist statue near the cave where 12 boys and their...
The American River Ganges, Harper’s Weekly, September 1871 by Thomas Nast. The original image of Nast’s most...
Procession de la Ligue 1590 Carnavalet. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Desmond M. Clarke / 01.16.2016 Late Professor...
By Dr. Bruce Gordon / 10.27.2017 Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History Yale Divinity School Yale University...
William Tyndale / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey / 10.14.2017 Distinguished Professor of Literature and...
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. By Dr. Peter Harrison...
An exorcism being performed in Fafe, Portugal. Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters The belief in demonic possession – often thought to be...
We need to move beyond assumptions that religion is simply about dogmatism. Daniel Montemayor We need to move...
The Great Mosque of Córdoba turned church after the Reconquista / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Was it a...
The Hindu god Ganesha. Anant Nath Sharma, CC BY-NC-ND Offering food to deities in Hinduism has deep religious significance. And most Hindu deities are not served...
A woman holds Pope Francis’ head during his meeting with representatives of indigenous peoples at the Vatican...
President Donald Trump with televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson. AP Photo/Steve Helber In recent years, Christian television has moved into news...
A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their...
Illustration of ritualised human sacrifice in traditional Hawaiian culture, as documented by the French explorer and artists...
Benedictine Abbey of Saint John / Photo by Wladyslaw, Wikimedia Commons The history of the Christian churches as...
Caravaggio’s 1595 masterpiece Bacchus. Wikimedia Commons Wine, more than other beverage, is intimately connected to celebration and worship. By...
The three Moirai. Relief, grave of Alexander von der Mark (de) by Johann Gottfried Schadow. / Old National Gallery, Berlin, via Wikimedia Commons...
Centre for the Study for Christianity and Culture, University of York., Author provided New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey...
The Homeric Multitext, Creative Commons By Dr. Margaret Alexiou George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Professor...
The abyss of hell. Sandro Botticelli The meaning of hell might have changed over the centuries, but for...
Plaque with a Priest from the Oxus Treasure, 500–330 B.C., Achaemenid. Gold, 5 7/8 x 2 15/16...
By Dr. Mark D. Smith / 03.25.2018 Professor of History The College of Idaho Pontius Pilate, and...
Medieval Persian manuscript depicting Muhammad leading Abraham, Moses and Jesus in prayer / From The Middle Ages. An...
Orphic Prayer Sheet, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 1 7/16 x 7/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum,...
By Erin Branham / 10.07.2012 Education Specialist for Family Programs Getty Villa I’m a fan of religion. That sounds glib,...
A review of Theodore Vial’s Modern Religion, Modern Race By Dr. Ruth Jackson / 03.16.2018 Research Fellow Sidney Sussex...
Memories of the largest lava flood in the history of Iceland, recorded in an apocalyptic medieval poem,...