At the heart of every major spiritual teaching is the call to love our neighbors as ourselves. Living this truth we already ...

We know that information about Gautama Buddha, Chanakya, and Shankaracharya come from textual sources that were composed centuries after their supposed lifetime ...

The nation’s official motto, “In God we trust,” has appeared on coins since the Civil War. The Pledge of Allegiance promises ...

Read the moving story of Sachini Dilshani Weerakoon, a Sri Lankan woman whose healing from a chronic autoimmune disease led ...

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Party's new Senate nominee, has a history of making highly controversial ...

Some statues are built on a scale that reshapes an entire skyline. The largest in the world rise hundreds of feet and require ...

This hymn, by the seventh-century poet, Appar, quoted in Raghavan Srinivasan’s book, exemplifies its rebellion against Vedic rigidity and ritual. “The saints of this movement were poets of the people, ...

The book, releasing April 7, uses the Japanese art of Kintsugi — repairing broken pottery with gold — as a metaphor for a ...

In a study published in the journal Iran, researcher Gad Barnea has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Zoroastrian religious practices were more prevalent and left a deeper imprint on surrounding ...

Although John Lennon could be brutally honest about his views, he was never afraid to go back to his most infamous comments.

Readers respond to a guest essay on the president’s behavior and the ancient roots of human dignity and compassion.