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What is Theravada Buddhism?
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Street scrolls: The beats, rhymes and spirituality of Latin hip-hop
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Israeli protesters fear for the future of their country's precarious LGBTQ...
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What is Theravada Buddhism? A scholar of Asian religions explains
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New anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples’ rights and religious...
Travis Goldtooth, a member of the Navajo Nation, was the reigning Miss Montana Two-Spirit in 2019.Katherine Davis-Young for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesMontana’s Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte...
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Changing wild animals' behavior could help save them – but is it ethical?
Cane toads: very large, very invasive and very poisonous.reptiles4all/iStock via Getty Images PlusWhen large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple...
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Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it's the Olmecs who...
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Oklahoma OKs the nation's first religious charter school – but litigation is...
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What is incorruptibility? A scholar of Catholic worship explains
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Pat Robertson's lasting influence on American politics: 3 essential reads
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Never mind Cleopatra – what about the forgotten queens of ancient Nubia?
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How Pat Robertson changed Christian media and made it politically influential
Pat Robertson, the host of the long-running daily television show "The 700 Club,” in 2016.AP Photo/Steve Helber, FileFor Americans growing up between the 1950s and the 1980s, religion was a predictable...
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Events in Bolivia and Brazil may signal a turning point for the Catholic...
Members of children's rights organizations protest against cases of clerical child abuse in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on May 25, 2023. Fernando Cartagena/AFP via Getty ImagesDemonstrations in Bolivia in...
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Why this year's summer solstice matters so much for a new religious movement...
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Jewish denominations: A brief guide for the perplexed
From Reconstructionism to ultra-Orthodoxy, Judaism is richly diverse.MendyHechtman/iStock via Getty ImagesAs a scholar of modern Jewish history, religion and politics, I am often asked to explain the...
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Southern Baptist Convention votes to expel two churches with female pastors –...
SBC pastor Rev. Linda Barnes Popham with the choir at Fern Creek Baptist Church in May 21, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.AP Photo/Jessie WardarskiDuring its two-day annual meeting that began on June...
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Abortion restrictions put hospital ethics committees in the spotlight – but...
Ethics decisions are among the hardest hospital staff need to make.Thomas Barwick/Stone via Getty ImagesMany states have imposed sweeping restrictions that all but ban abortion since the June 2022...
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Southern Baptists expel churches with women pastors – but the debate’s not...
Attendees, or 'messengers,' hold up their ballots during the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in 2022.AP Photo/Jae C. HongThe Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant group in...
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On International Yoga Day, lessons from the first American yogi – Henry David...
Celebrating International Yoga Day on the beach in Miami Beach, Fla., in 2022.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty ImagesInternational Yoga Day, dedicated to celebrating yoga as part of the “intangible...
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The tree of life has been a powerful image in Jewish tradition for thousands...
Tree of life imagery appears in several sections of the Bible.Catherine MacBride/Moment via Getty ImagesAfter weeks of wrenching testimony, jurors delivered a guilty verdict June 16, 2023, for the...
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