As we move further into Matthew’s Gospel, we see increasing hostility growing between Jesus and the Jewish religious leaders. They were constantly questioning Jesus and His teachings because His ...

Detail of Sunnie Liu, "施洗 (To Baptize)" (2022), installation with televisions, buckets, baptism robes, sound tube, table, incense, and cushions (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic) The naked body — or ...

An urgent refrain runs through this very unconventional devotional: Don’t allow authoritarian powers to reign with little ...

I always knew that people of faith were supposed to have devotional time. When I joined the church, I sort of expected someone to tell me the “official” Christian devotional method. But no one did. It ...

Robert Lynch, a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology, says the level of devotion one feels toward religious beliefs can predict how that person likely will interact with members of his own group or ...

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Most people know that the Virgin Mary is very popular among Catholic and Orthodox Christians. But what they usually don't know is that the Mother of God is also venerated by devotees from other faiths ...

The phrase conveys the deep connection between Our Lady of Guadalupe and the country’s identity. In the nation of 130 million people — the majority of whom identify as Catholic — this apparition of ...

In Christ’s parable of Dives and Lazarus, we are told that between paradise and hell “there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, ...

When it comes to discussing suicide bombers, the controversial topic of religion is never far behind. Scholars and pundits have proposed several theories to explain why people would sacrifice their ...