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October 08, 2022

The Printing Press and the Reformation

This is the second part of a series on how printing technology changed the course...

October 07, 2022

The Impact of Printing on Religion: Buddhism in East Asia

Religion stumbled along for centuries before the invention of printing technology. Before printing was invented,...

October 02, 2022

The New Madrid Earthquakes: Disaster and Religion on the Frontier

What is the connection between natural disasters and religion? The world's scriptures often mention natural...

September 2022

September 28, 2022

Journalism Versus Religion

There is a new Global Faith and Media Study on how news media cover religion...

September 24, 2022

What Is Deism?

The word Deism often comes up in early U.S. history and some 18th century European...

September 23, 2022

The Myth of the Christian Nation

One of the most persistent popular themes of American history is that the United States...

September 17, 2022

The Mahabodhi Temple, Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment

The Mahabodhi Temple is believed to mark the place where the Buddha realized enlightenment. This...

September 11, 2022

The True Story of the Mozart Requiem Mass

The 1984 film Amadeus -- and the stage play on which it was based -- took...

September 06, 2022

Rabi’a of Basra, Sufi Saint of Islam

Rābiʿah al-ʿAdawīyah (713/17–801), also called Rabi’a of Basra or Rabi'a Basri, was a woman, poet,...

September 05, 2022

Saint Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church: The Little Chapel That Stood

St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Church, New York City, is an old Episcopal church with...

September 02, 2022

What Was the Axial Age?

The Axial Age was a period of world history. It’s called “Axial Age” because it...

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August 29, 2022

The Ten Commandments and the Origins of Law

Is U.S. law based on the Ten Commandments? Over the years, many in the U.S....

August 25, 2022

The Trials of Kumarajiva the Translator

Kumarajiva (344–413 CE) is remembered for translating many significant Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Chinese....

August 22, 2022

The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

Descriptions of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, 1572, are gut-wrenching to read even now. The...

August 18, 2022

Jews in Colonial America

Yes, there were Jews in colonial America. It wasn't just Puritans and Quakers. The history...

August 15, 2022

The Edicts of Ashoka

Much of what we know about Ashoka the Great is taken from the edicts of...

August 12, 2022

The Mystery of the Pillars of Ashoka

Now we call them the pillars of Ashoka. But for centuries no one knew who...

August 10, 2022

Father Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang Theory

The gorgeous images of distant space taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope put astronomy...

August 07, 2022

The Many Fake Quotes of Laozi

Fake quotes are a known hazard of the Web. The Chinese philosopher Laozi (or Lao...

August 05, 2022

When Evangelicals Were Liberal

There were liberal evangelicals? What if I told you that evangelical Christians were the original...

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