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 explores how the Israel–Gaza war is transforming religion and spirituality among young adults. Surveying over 1,200 students, the researchers found that half reported changes in their ...

This follows earlier action by the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture, confiscating hundreds of books from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

I suspect robots won’t give a flying algorithm for you or your opinions. I do. And there is nothing artificial about that.

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