Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once reserved for that one woo-woo friend who does a lot of yoga, we've seen things like crystals, tarot cards, and other symbols ...

This semester I taught a new course as part of the revised core curriculum at my academic institution. It was one of a range of first-year seminars, which each incoming student takes during their ...

The first time I heard the concept of “multiple religious belonging,” I was a college student. Iyanla Vanzant was a visiting professor at Bennett College during my senior year in 2011. While I wasn’t ...

Speaking at the Skeptics Society Conference at Caltech late last month, author and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins addressed the recent Pew study, which showed that the number of people who ...

In the religious / spiritual dimension of your life, how do you identify? For example, with respect to religion / spirituality, fill in the blank: “I am a(n) _____.“ You may find this sentence easy to ...

Religion and spirituality encompass belief systems, practices and experiences that shape individuals’ understanding of meaning, purpose and community. A growing body of research has explored how these ...

Let’s talk about “spiritual but not religious.” Certainly you are free to call yourself that, but to me the classification comes with some red flags. For example, in the universe of social media memes ...

"There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power...To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves" -Thomas Merton "Be the change that ...

Americans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) tend to be less religious than those who are not LGBT. In addition, adults who are lesbian, gay or bisexual have more negative views than ...