(RNS) The Daniel Fast diet is gaining popularity during Lent, when participants will eat only food from seeds, drink only water and practice daily devotions. Proponents say it gives new meaning to ...

Fasting like an Old Testament prophet gains followers during Lent. By G. Jeffrey Macdonald| Religion News Service. February 7, 2013 at 4:01 p.m. EST.

From the Persian poet Rumi through the Old Testament Israelites to the political protests of the suffragettes, New Generation Thinker Christopher Kissane, of the London School of Economics ...