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What Homer's 'Odyssey' can teach us about reentering the world after a year...
Greek hero Odysseus reunites with his wife, Penelope, upon his return to Ithaca, in an illustration from Homer's epic.Culture Club/Getty ImagesIn the ancient Greek epic “The Odyssey,” Homer’s hero,...
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Shakespeare's musings on religion are like curious whispers – they require...
Caliban implores his fellow island dwellers to listen to the noises in "The Tempest."The Print Collector/Getty ImagesWilliam Shakespeare’s role as a religious guide is not an obvious one. While the...
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US landmarks bearing racist and Colonial references are renamed to reflect...
In Ames, Iowa, a creek previously named after an offensive term for Native American women is now called Ioway Creek.Sarah Dees, CC BY-NC-NDA creek running through the city of Ames in central Iowa was...
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FBI reaches out to Hasidic Jews to fight antisemitism – but bureau has...
FBI announcements in Yiddish encourage Hasidic or "ultra-Orthodox" Jews to report incidents of anti-Semitism.Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe FBI wants to hear from Hasidim, or “ultra-Orthodox” Jews. The...
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Cancel culture looks a lot like old-fashioned church discipline
Baptist preachers canceled by opponents.Library of CongressBlink and you may have missed one of the more recent controversies over cancel culture.On March 23, 2021, columnist Hemal Jhaveri published an...
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Ancient Christian thinkers made a case for reparations that has striking...
Some ancient theologians argued that the Israelites deserved a share of Egypt's wealth after being enslaved for centuries.Culture Club/Hulton Archive via Getty ImagesReparations to Black Americans for...
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State lawsuits over stimulus tax rule face uphill battle
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The 'bystander effect' is real -- but research shows that when more people...
An image from a police body camera shows bystanders including Darnella Frazier, third from right, filming a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee on George Floyd's neck.Minneapolis Police...
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Indians are forced to change rituals for their dead as COVID-19 rages through...
Mass cremations in the city of Bengaluru, India, due to the large number of COVID-19 deaths.Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)In the past several weeks, the world has looked on in horror as the...
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Bishops' move to press Biden not to take Communion reflects power struggle in...
President Joe Biden's progressive values jar with the conservatism of some Catholic bishops.AP Photo/Evan VucciPresident Joe Biden is the highest-profile and most powerful lay Catholic in American life...
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Do people become more religious in times of crisis?
Has COVID-19 strengthened people's faith?Karen Minasyan/AFP via Getty ImagesOrganized religion has been on the decline for decades in the United States. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Why people with disabilities are at greater risk of going hungry – especially...
Stocking up on food can be tough when using a wheelchair, motorized scooter, walker or cane. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed uncomfortable and distressing...
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What the US can learn from Africa about slavery reparations
Activists mark National Reparations Day in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2019.Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe House Judiciary Committee voted on April 14, 2021, to recommend the creation of a commission to...
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US prisons hold more than 550,000 people with intellectual disabilities –...
The rate of intellectual disabilities is disproportionately high among incarcerated populations.Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesPrison life in the U.S. is tough. But when you have an intellectual,...
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Lag BaOmer pilgrimage brings Orthodox Jews closer to eternity – I experienced...
A condolence message and candles for the victims of a stampede during a Jewish ultra-Orthodox mass pilgrimage to Mount Meron, projected on a wall of Jerusalem's Old City.Ilia Yefimovich/picture...
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From Rodney King to George Floyd, how video evidence can be differently...
Video evidence at trial played a crucial part in the conviction of a police officer for the 2020 murder of George Floyd.AP Photo/Ben GrayNews media coverage of Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of...
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COVID-19 upended Americans' sense of individualism and invited us to embrace...
Nothing demonstrates our reliance on each other like a highly contagious disease.Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe ability to lift oneself up by their own bootstraps has long been...
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Why the Al-Aqsa Mosque has often been a site of conflict
Muslims pray at the Mihrab, a niche in a wall indicating the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, at the Foundation Stone, located under the Dome of the Rock in the Al- Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's...
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Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common...
GettyImagesThe world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of rockets by the militant group Hamas into Israel. It follows two weeks of...
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Faith in numbers: Is church attendance linked to higher rates of coronavirus?
Church closures were among the most contested measures brought in to fight COVID-19Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe lockdowns that almost every state went into in order to combat the spread of COVID-19 in...
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