Do the world's religions and contemplative traditions send people to the same place—compassion, bliss, awe, a sense of God, awareness or the universe? We conducted a study that asked a smaller version ...

Brooks said one might hear someone speaking in tongues once a month in his church — "Not as often as I would like," he said. Pentecostalism is distinguished from other evangelical movements by its ...

The South African author J.M. Coetzee, now 85 years old, is renowned for his austere, intellectually rigorous novels such as “Disgrace” (1999) and “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and his scrupulous ...

Two spiritual practices that appear vastly different on the surface – the quiet focus of Buddhist jhāna meditation and the ...

John Hadfield wrote "Blood Moon" in shocked response to learning that, in 1504, during his fourth transatlantic voyage, Christopher Columbus had used his knowledge of an upcoming Blood Moon eclipse to ...