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Yule – a celebration of the return of light and warmth

Helen A. Berger, Brandeis University Yule will be celebrated by Wiccans and many other Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere...

How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became...

Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas...

Hanukkah celebrations have changed dramatically − but the same is true...

Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Articles and op-eds in newspapers remind readers...

A TikTok Jesus promises divine blessings and many worldly comforts

Brandon Dean, University of Iowa The TikTok profile Daily Believer (@believerdaily) has 70 videos with computer-generated Jesuses looking directly...

In America, national parks are more than scenic − they’re sacred....

Thomas S. Bremer, Rhodes College Abraham Lincoln has an almost saintly place in U.S. history: the “Great Emancipator” whose...

Latter-day Saints lawsuits raise questions over Mormon tithing – can churches...

Samuel Brunson, Loyola University Chicago Three men have filed a lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

#UsToo: How antisemitism and Islamophobia make reporting sexual misconduct and abuse...

Keren McGinity, Brandeis University October 2023 marks the anniversary of #MeToo: six years since actor Alyssa Milano’s tweet calling...

American individualism lives on after death, as consumers choose new ways...

Diana Blaine, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Death may be inevitable and universal, but the ways...

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