Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

Bonhoeffer matters precisely because he reminds us that Christian behavior and attitudes are more than calculations for a ...

The leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has made a robust defense of the role of religion in the political ... and the majority of people in the world actually hold a religious ...

10 Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes." 11 Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive ...

Fourna, home to 180 people and hidden in the fir-tree covered mountains of central Greece, is a vanishing village that is ...

In The World of Yesterday, Zweig writes, I was born in 1881 in the great and mighty empire of the Habsburg monarchy, but you would look for it in vain on the map today; it has vanished without a ...

The Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions is held once every three years in Astana, Kazakhstan. The Congress was initiated by President Nursultan Nazarbaev. The Congress attempts to ...

One of the world’s first maps, a cave painting in Anatolia ... representing how important religion was at the time. With images such as a lynx in Asia-Minor and Noah’s Ark in Armenia, Mappa Mundi is ...

Rev. Vicki Michela Garlock brings a rich, varied tapestry of experience and training to her latest book, giving children and ...

Oklahoma’s newest proposed academic standards for social studies has a lens on Christianity and the teaching of Jesus. It also includes an overview of world religions.

Fittingly, in photographs depicting aspects of faith, it’s often the light that is most riveting. An Apache dancer whirling ...

Here’s the gist: Western understandings of religion have been defined by the Anglo-Protestant tradition. Those of us who have taught about world religions know this by heart. Students who grow ...