holidays

Idle times are upon us. Traffic jams, holiday commutes, and New Year’s resolution jogs were once the stuff of nightmares, but fear not: there exists a medium so captivating, so perfectly tailored…

Here’s a heartwarming holiday story from Springfield, Massachusetts, where city councilor Bud Williams said at a Chabad Lubavitch-sponsored Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony, “Jesus is the reason for…

The war on Christmas, it’s been well documented, is not a real thing. Though there are disputes about whether or not it’s rude to say “Merry Christmas” to the less than 10 percent of Americans who don…

Gambia: President, Foreign Minister Portray Anti-Gay Persecution as Defense of Islam, Africa We have reported previously on Gambia’s viciously anti-gay president Yahya Jammeh. Buzzfeed’s Lester Feder…

In November, while governor Jay Nixon declared the controversy in Ferguson to be a state of emergency, another racially charged protest was under way in the Netherlands. On November 15 the town of…

Chalk up the lack of religion in this post to the flurry of planning, cooking and binging demanded by the American god of Thanksgiving. To its aftermath, actually. Taking a break from the regular news…

Pagans have demanded an apology for a Time magazine article that, according to a petition, compared witches to terrorists. The “inflammatory” part of author Jennifer Latson’s piece, which analyzes our…

New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic bishops’ synod on the family, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced that it will be…

Murder often functions as a cultural Rorschach test: the narratives we tell about why people kill often reveal more about ourselves than the killers. The day before Halloween, 21-year-old Isaiah Marin…

“Halloween gives you a great opportunity to show how Christians celebrate the day that death was defeated, and you can give them Gospel tracts…”