As the Dalai Lama nears his 90th birthday, he addresses reincarnation plans to block any successor backed by China's ...

Parents have the right to keep their children from any instruction on LGBTQ themes in public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

By Sue Prideaux “A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.” Ian Penman, a post-punk music ...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parents have a right to withdraw their children from public school classes when ...

Ruins of an ancient Greek bath, an important aspect of the practice of hygiene in ancient Greece. Credit: Erik Drost / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons. The word hygiene comes from a French Latinization ...

The director’s most recent film, “The Phoenician Scheme.” very explicitly affirms faith. This is all the more surprising ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a group of Maryland parents have a right to opt their elementary-school-aged children ...

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...

Forthcoming books on the life of the Buddha, St. Augustine, and the Biblical villain Haman each offer new perspectives on the ...

Representation of non-Abrahamic religions and spiritual traditions, particularly in the mainstream comics universe, is minimal. Even when they are portrayed in comics, their presentation, as Singh and ...

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I should like to do anything I could,” wrote Bailey, “to help Lt. Zeph Stewart, and if he is coming to England, I hope he ...