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Thai men can be ordained from a few days to the rest of their lives. Pakin Songmor/Moment via Getty Images

What ‘The White Lotus’ gets wrong about the meaning and goals...

Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College The new season of “The White Lotus” is set on a luxury resort on the...
A five-story replica of a stamp of Superman in 1998 in Cleveland, home of the superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File

See you in the funny papers: How superhero comics tell the...

Miriam Eve Mora, University of Michigan Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas....

Who’s who at the Vatican?

Daniel Speed Thompson, University of Dayton For more than two weeks, eyes have been on the Vatican, awaiting news...

Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about...

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma can open St. Isidore:...
These values seem due more to shared intuitions than local customs or social practices. arturbo/E+ via Getty Images

An eye for an eye: People agree about the values of...

Yunsuh Nike Wee, Oklahoma State University; Daniel Sznycer, Oklahoma State University, and Jaimie Arona Krems, University of California, Los Angeles

Why ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ almost didn’t air − and why...

Stephen Lind, University of Southern California It’s hard to imagine a holiday season without “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The...

Why the religious beliefs of Trump defense pick Pete Hegseth matter

Julie Ingersoll, University of North Florida The most serious allegations against Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick to head the...

On Bodhi Day, Buddhists commemorate Siddhartha Gautama’s enlightenment by lighting lamps...

Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment...

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