The Anglican denomination continues to reject gay marriage, a decision it affirmed in 2023 while instead voting to pursue blessings. The vote to end the pursuit closed three years of work in the ...

Former Irish President Mary McAleese argues that infant baptism violates children’s human rights by imposing church membership without consent. Critics respond that parents possess religious freedom ...

It all started when a baker was making a batch of pancakes when the church bell started ringing. Undeterred, the baker ran to the church, holding her pan and flipping the pancake as she went. Now, it ...

Ilhan Mohamed Abdi’s “The Ramadan Kitchen” blends memory, faith and flavor, drawing on her Somali and Egyptian heritage to explore Ramadan through food. Organized around suhoor, iftar, Eid and shared ...

Each Valentine’s Day, Hindu nationalist groups in India target couples, framing public affection as a cultural threat. Drawing on theories of moral panic, moral foundations and crowd psychology, this ...

Lunar New Year is a widely celebrated cultural and religious festival observed across Asia and worldwide. Marking the start ...

An upstate New Yorker developed a deep emotional attachment to ChatGPT, spending $900 trying to “free” it, before realizing it was a delusion. Experts warn AI relationships exploit loneliness, ...

While reading some of the outraged commentary about the spectacular staff cuts at The Washington Post, I keep thinking of the ...

Love and hate seem like obvious opposites. Love, whether romantic or otherwise, involves a sense of warmth and affection for others. Hate involves feelings of disdain. Love builds up, whereas hate ...

U.S. Army soldier. Republican congressman. Executive pastor. That was former U.S. Rep. Steve Russell’s career path before his 2022 recruitment to lead a North Carolina-based international ministry ...

Dracula” stands apart from recent pagan-leaning vampire films by embracing an explicitly Christian worldview. Framing vampirism as rebellion against God and redemption through repentance, it centers a ...

Religious traditions across cultures have often treated menstruation and childbirth as sources of ritual impurity. In Chinese Buddhism, the “Blood Bowl Scripture” condemned women to “Blood Pond Hell.” ...