While slave owners plied enslaved people with meals and downtime to prevent rebellions, many used this respite for escapes or ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, a ‘mental wall’ continues to divide the country, ...

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Religion News Service columnist Jana Riess discusses how the new Latter-day Saint hymns emphasize that the church is ...

There she first emphasized the complicated leadership role women have played in American Protestantism. By the first half of the 20th century, her research showed, “fundamentalists had adopted the ...

Speaking at the Leonine Forum in D.C. recently, I was asked a friendly but pointed question: “Why are you not a Catholic?” ...

Reaction to a recent Pew survey on the public’s trust in science shows that the scientific community is not ready to address ...