By 2026, the world hardly needed any convincing regarding the strident zeal for endless vengeance in the Middle East, given the genocide sti...

The political separation of “Church and State” in U.S. constitutional law, a doctrine that is of jurisprudence (judicial decision) rather th...

With Easter, 2026, taking place amid the holocaustic genocide in Gaza, Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and the U.S./Israel attacks aga...

When Sarah Mullally was formally installed in a historic ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral on March 25, 2026, a former nurse became the Archb...

In the film,  The Apocalypse   (2002), the Apostle John is a prisoner at an island-prison because he is a Christian. He is having visions of...

“Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord” is a Biblical saying that is perhaps as well known as it is typically ignored in the midst of passion. E...

As “part of the Vatican’s efforts to reach out beyond the Catholic Church to engage with the secular world,” Pope Leo spoke with actors and ...

Carl Schultz’s film,  The Seventh Sign   (1988), centers on the theological motif of the Second Coming, the end of the world when God’s divi...

The Christian “belief in the ‘rapture’ of believers at the time of Jesus’ return to Earth is rooted in a particular form of biblical interpr...

The film, Mary (2024), is pregnant with intimations of the theological implications of her unborn and then newly born son, Jesus. That stor...

Religion plays a prominent role in the film,  Lykke-Per , or A Fortunate Man (2018). On the surface, Peter Sidenius, a young engineer, must...

In late April, 2025, Richard Slavin, whose Hindu name and title are Radhanath Swami, spoke on the essence of  bhukti  at the conclusion of t...

In Christianity, Paul wrote that if the resurrection of Christ Jesus didn’t really take place, then faith is for naught, but he also wrote t...

I suspect that many people would feel very uncomfortable watching a religious person express devotional love to that person’s chosen deity i...

On March 14, 2025, “(m)illions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors . . . by smearing each other with brigh...

Levi Strauss theorized that the function of a myth lies in reconciling basic contradictions, whether they are felt within a person or at the...

One of the leitmotifs of the four Christian Gospels is the surprising value of peripheries even over people who are up front, whether politi...

Among the classic biblically-based films out of Hollywood, and the first to show Jesus’ face, The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) is a high...

In his religiosity, Ramakrishna (1836-1885), a Hindu mystic and priest at a temple of the goddess Kali, the goddess of death, drew on the Bh...

Gertrud of Helfta (1256-1301) was a Christian nun whose sensitivity to mystical experience can be characterized as a bridal mysticism within...