“The City of Our Lady Queen of the Angels on the river Porciúncula”, Tony Duquette
For the bicentennial of the city of Los Angeles, “The City of Our Lady Queen of the Angels on the river Porciúncula”, Tony Duquette, a native son, created a gift…
BBC Archive: 1975: A Nun’s Life
Tuesday Documentary: Chastity, Poverty and Obedience, originally broadcast on BBC One, 27 May, 1975.
Believing in God is Hard
Believing God and spirits exist and experiencing them as present are two different things. Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann calls the work of bridging that gap real-making: the prayers, offerings, and habits…
Did People In The Medieval World Believe in Ghosts?| Medieval Afterlife | History Hit
Ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night! Dr Eleanor Janega delves into the medieval phantasmic to find out what their restless dead can tell us about the…
Why Evangelicals Started Looking for 666 in Barcodes
Revelation 13 describes a mark, 666, branded on people so that no one can buy or sell without it. How did American evangelicals come to read that as a barcode,…
Did Jesus Have Brothers and Sisters?
Did Jesus have brothers and sisters? The Gospel of Mark names four: James, Joses, Judas, Simon, plus unnamed sisters. Paul met James, the brother of Jesus. So why did later…
She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope’s remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Opposed to using AI for her software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption. Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, said she proposed the special…
What is Sikhism?
Religion for Breakfast
Cult of Mithras Explained
The Cult of Mithras was a thriving religion in the Roman Empire. But by the 5th century....it was gone. What do we know about the Cult of Mithras? And what…
HistoryExtra podcast: A history of Christian sacrifice
What's the role that sacrifice has played in the history of Christianity? It's a history that might be more complex, and more surprising, than we think. Jonathan Sheehan's latest book…