A ritual is a symbolic action intended to connect us to the deeper meaning of important events in our lives. It can acknowledge change, connect us to mystery, celebrate a life, honor a special moment, ...

Last Friday, I was invited to Temple Adat Elohim’s ceremony to dedicate its newly completed Torah that I, together with other members of the Conejo Valley Interfaith Association, were invited to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As we celebrate Us-On-Earth Day again this year, I want to raise again the urgent and ongoing need for us to understand this day and our approach to it as not simply concerns about ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A Reform rabbi, a Navajo medicine man and a professor walk into a museum. It sounds like the opening of a joke, but on a recent May Shabbat at Window Rock, Arizona, capital of the ...

Just a few weeks after one of her own books was removed from a high school curriculum, Toni Morrison has spoken out against censorship and about the importance – the "sacredness" – of access to books.

Gushee, professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, attempts to rescue the phrase “sacredness of life” from its narrow application by pro-life activists. After offering a carefully constructed ...

Today’s post is the third in a series offering advice to educators grappling with teaching during these turbulent times. Christopher Emdin is the Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to ...

To most visitors, the San Francisco Peaks are a winter playground — powdery slopes, alpine air, and the thrill of activities at the Arizona Snowbowl Resort. But to more than a dozen Indigenous Nations ...

The Soraya has assembled an entire company of musicians who are 2026 Grammy nominees: pianist and music director Gerald Clayton, Los Angeles-based gospel choir Tonality, and jazz vocalists Christie ...

If the mother delivers you into the lap of creation, the yogic sciences are capable of delivering you into the very lap of ...