Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

The word "valid" primarily refers to a property of argumentation. Of course, "path" usually refers to ways of getting from ...

At U.S. presidential inaugurations, prayers often reflect national identity as much as faith. From New York Cardinal Timothy ...

The world’s largest religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and others, influence history, culture, and daily life.

After a coalition of rebels toppled the Assad regime, the interim government they have set up in Damascus has moved quickly ...

Why should everything be reduced to the binary of Halal and Haram? It’s pop Islam—faux piety, driven by pseudo-Islamic power ...

The truth is that caring for Earth’s environment as God’s creation is a serious tenet in every theistic religion I know of, ...

I DON’T care about haram or halal. I’d rather extinguish the fire in hell and burn heaven so that people could start loving God for no other reason than love.’ This statement, as quoted by Shams ...

If all world’s religions are God-made, then S/He is a quite inconsistent deity. The question of whether ... and Muhammad (PBUH) in Islam, to guide humanity toward recognizing Him and ...

This doesn’t imply, however, that a religious search should begin at random. Rather, you should start the way you would in ...

Although I always thank God for my wife, it is when we make love that I feel closest to her and to God. Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, the founder of the Hassidic movement, said (in Zava’at ha-Riva’sh), ...

Labelling these times as surreal or perplexing is an understatement. The Western and Israeli portrayal of events is truly in ...