The background of spirituality and religion falls in the category of the fallacy, “you love waffles, so you hate pancakes.” This fallacy involves creating a distorted version of an opponent’s ...

Brahmacharya’ is a monastic discipline centered on controlling the senses and directing attention toward spiritual practice.

Recent disputes over examinations and working hours show how the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath continues to turn an ancient ...

As a lawyer who has dedicated his entire career to the cause of religious liberty, the state of religious liberty in America has never been stronger. In my nearly four decades of fighting for ...

The news about religious practice over the last decade has primarily focused on its decline. But disaffiliation is not evidence that Americans have abandoned faith or spiritual experience. In fact, as ...

I'm serializing my forthcoming Emory Law Journal article titled Addiction to Constitutionally Protected Activity: Speech, Press, and Religion. In my first post, I argued that calls to regulate social ...

We’re in desperate need of broad-based community organizing these days. Many of the most tangible injustices in our world, both large and small, appear to be unresolvable through straightforward ...

{{youtube:medium:center| 4atRgbhBEhk, Historicization in Contemplative Pedagogy by Dr. Ben Williams at the College of William and Mary}} Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado is not just a liberal ...

Religious institutions may be waning in the U.S., but private religious practices like prayer are on the rise, a new University of Chicago report reveals. While weekly attendees of religious services ...

The top court in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state has rejected a petition seeking to allow a Muslim girl student to wear the traditional hijab (head scarf) in school, saying it is “not an ...

Ecologists have identified significant ecological risks associated with the release of hybrid groupers into Hong Kong's coastal waters, a practice often linked to religious 'mercy release' rituals.