As a girl in Catholic school, Khadijah Rivera dreamed of becoming a nun despite the fact she feared Jesus. She was frightened by her church's bloodied statue of ...
Battling for the heart of Jewish mysticism, Hollywood and the Hasidim offer different paths
One rabbi who studied it grew crazy, one died and another became so bewildered that he lost his faith. According to Jewish tradition, the study of the Kabbalah ...
This Halloween Modern Satanists are just asking for a little understanding
Syn Holliday is a family man with three young children, a loving wife and a suburban home next door to a devout Mormon family his children regularly play ...
Pro-life gays and lesbians see the fight for the unborn related to their struggle
Steve Cook flinched as a heckler hollered, "You're a traitor to the gay community." One of the signs Cook held read, "Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians," and ...
How living with a street gang led an agnostic anthropologist to faith
Thomas Ward agonized over a choice: should he cheat death by ditching his research or forge ahead and prepare to die? He decided to prepare to die. ...
Jewish-Christians at USC struggle with the effects of conversion to Christianity
David Allen's parents wanted him to see a psychiatrist. Why? Not because he was depressed, taking drugs or getting bad grades in college but because he wanted to convert to Christianity.
Allen is one of several ...
