Religions
17/10/2024 - 13:38
Fifty years ago, as graduate students at Oxford, my wife and I were preparing to do anthropological fieldwork on the island of Sumba, in... →
24/07/2023 - 13:03
In the mid-2nd century, CE Justin Martyr explained the role of demons in Christian thought. The sons of God succumbed to intercourse with... →
26/09/2019 - 12:04
Another 1,500 years later – today – Zoroastrianism is a dying faith, its sacred flames tended by ever fewer worshippers.
We take it for... →
19/09/2019 - 16:41
I didn’t know other interfaith Jews growing up, so the first ones I met were through books. Specifically, Margaret in Are You There... →
28/08/2019 - 10:39
“Even though we only teach about Hanukkah, if they say, ‘we’re excited that we have a Christmas tree and a menorah in our house,’ if it’s... →
20/08/2019 - 12:36
Another 1,500 years later – today – Zoroastrianism is a dying faith, its sacred flames tended by ever fewer worshippers.
We take it for... →
24/03/2018 - 13:05
Plenty of people will find all this to be cause for celebration. It’s like a Philip Pullman fantasy made real: the young people of ... →
06/09/2017 - 13:24
“Nadia, Nadia!” cry two girls as they run toward us and pounce with hugs on Nadia Kinani, the principal of the Max Rayne Hand in Hand... →
21/06/2017 - 13:00
In too many instances, discrimination and racism created gaps between ethnic groups and between religions, phenomena that have still not... →
22/05/2017 - 16:10
Fire is the main theme in several holidays: Jews celebrate LagBaOmer by lighting bonfires; Orthodox Christians observe the Holy... →
25/03/2017 - 20:15
Of course, plenty of thoughtful people argue that the Earth alone contains too much pain and suffering to be the work of a good God. But... →
06/01/2015 - 17:15
Scholars are still trying to tease out the complex factors that drive an individual or a nation toward atheism, but there are a few... →