Religious and spiritual traditions have, for millennia, provided practices, rituals, and communities that help people come together to make sense of life, support one another, and seek the ...

Human innovation may alter how we see, hear or even perceive reality, but it will not undo the deepest truths of faith. Ecclesiastes reminds us, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9). Every ...

Scientists and scholars are increasingly debating whether animals may exhibit behaviors that resemble religion. Observations ...

I began my career as a scholar of crime, deviance, and social problems, studying where things went wrong in the world and in people’s lives. Only in recent years have I come to appreciate a whole ...

This week marks 75 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) — the document that has become the blueprint for our international ...

A glance at recorded history shows us that humans have “always” felt a need to explain phenomena perceived to exist beyond our comprehension. Today, we turn to science to seek answers to our questions ...

The impact of Moltbook, the social network of 'bots' where a non-human religion has been founded, and the rise of AI-generated religious content among believers open the debate on what a future with ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush explores the urgent message of the Freedom To Read Day of Community Action with three leaders in the fight against book bans: Dartmouth Librarian Qiana Johnson, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elder Ulisses Soares delivers a speech on peace and religious freedom at the opening reception for IRF Summit 2025 at the ...