Each week, we’ll be covering how faith shapes our politics, culture and society — and how it’s appearing in new forms.

A new study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem explores how the Israel–Gaza war is transforming religion and ...

When I play, I feel the vibration in my heart,” the cellist Yumi Kendall told Dacher Keltner, a psychologist who studies awe. “It is beyond language. Beyond thought. Beyond religion. It is like a ...

Scientific research was suppressed for decades in Maoist China, Stalin's Russia, and Nazi Germany. This seriously held back ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s ...

To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has shaken his young supporters, but also strengthened their resolve ...

With its nickname as the Warm Heart of Africa, the hospitality of the Zambian people is well-known to BW. -- Emma Lambert of ...

Pinker, though, has done a great deal of research in the field, as well as reading just about everything ever written on the subject. And he’s convinced that it is an unjustly neglected area of ...

Once a year, do something so hard you might fail. That's Misogi—a ritual of discomfort that could change how you see the rest ...

IOWA CITY — The Catholic community in downtown Iowa City is reaching out to those with questions about faith, whether they ...