An interview with Playboy magazine nearly torpedoed Jimmy Carter's Presidential campaign: The pious Georgia Democrat spoke earnestly of his views on sex, a bridge too far for conservative Christians ~humanities.history Article 1844 words 6 votes
The Amish keep to themselves. And they’re hiding a horrifying secret: "A year of reporting by Cosmo and Type Investigations reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse." ~humanities religion Article 3340 words, published Jan 14 2020 23 votes
Scaled-down hajj begins in coronavirus era – in pictures ~humanities religion Article published Jul 30 2020 11 votes
Is religion a flawed play-style for humans and if so, why did it arise in the first place? (Feat. TierZoo) ~humanities religion Video 14:34, published May 10 2020 2 votes
Racism in the USA is higher among white Christians than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence ~humanities religion Article 1562 words 28 votes
B'nai mitzvah: Instead of a male or female coming-of-age ceremony, one Jewish teen decided to do "something in the middle" ~lgbt Article 775 words 8 votes
The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960 ~humanities religion Article 525 words 8 votes
The US Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid ~finance Article 2360 words 10 votes
Young people around the world are less religious than their parents in several measures ~humanities religion Article 2942 words, published Jun 13 2018 10 votes
The invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was initially met with skepticism ~humanities religion Article 981 words 6 votes
The Chinese government is engaging in a widespread, systematic campaign of forced birth control and sterilization on Uighurs and other minorities ~news china.xinjiang Article 3251 words 48 votes
How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone ~humanities.languages Article 354 words 9 votes
Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms ~enviro climate change Article 301 words 14 votes
Actor Danny Masterson of That '70s Show charged with raping three women ~tv Article 303 words 8 votes
An Indian healer who kissed hands to cure coronavirus died of coronavirus: So far, 20 people who came in close contact with him tested positive, making the Indian state of Madhya Pradesha a hotspot ~health Article 432 words 9 votes
"My Immortal" as alchemical allegory ~humanities religion philosophy Article 7098 words, published May 27 2020 9 votes
Undercover at a Christian gay-to-straight conversion camp ~lgbt Article 1859 words, published Oct 25 2018 12 votes
More than forty diagnosed with COVID-19 after Frankfurt church service ~health Article 172 words 8 votes
Pastor who claimed to cure coronavirus with faith dies of coronavirus ~health Article 264 words 12 votes
Saudi Arabia, other gulf states reimpose strict measures after coronavirus cases spike during Ramadan ~health Article 970 words 6 votes
Men quitting masturbation: "Porn addiction" support groups reinforce damaging gender stereotypes ~life Article 2437 words 25 votes
Roe of “Roe v. Wade” says Christian right paid her to be anti-choice mouthpiece ~humanities religion Article 608 words 17 votes
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus ~health Article 901 words 10 votes
In defense of hellfire: The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice? ~humanities.history Article 2629 words, published Nov 17 2019 8 votes
My teenage rebellion was fundamentalist Christianity ~life Article 2193 words, published Feb 18 2019 7 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes
France mandates masks to control the coronavirus, but burqas remain banned ~health Article 1401 words 12 votes
Danish Lutheran minister who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died ~humanities religion Article 283 words 5 votes
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) ~humanities.history Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
We are all niqabis now: Coronavirus masks reveal hypocrisy of face covering bans ~life.women Article 1045 words, published Apr 27 2020 12 votes
Indonesia bans traditional Ramadan exodus to rein in coronavirus ~humanities religion Article 94 words 6 votes
The Pope just proposed a universal basic income. Is the United States ready for it? ~humanities.history Link 16 votes
How Narendra Modi serves the Hindu ideal of Bharat in opposition to secular ideals of India ~humanities religion Article 2356 words 4 votes
As Coca-Cola’s popularity spread in the United States in the 1920s, rabbis around the country asked, is Coke kosher? ~food history drinks.soft Article 2298 words, published Jan 9 2013 9 votes
Cardinal George Pell will be released from prison after the High Court of Australia quashed his child sexual abuse convictions ~humanities religion Article 10 votes
Seventy-one infected with coronavirus at Sacramento church. Congregation tells county ‘leave us alone’ ~health Article 752 words 9 votes
Louisiana pastor defies coronavirus order, draws over 1,000 people to services ~humanities religion Article 519 words 13 votes
Coronavirus COVID-19 cases spiked across Asia after a mass gathering in Malaysia. This is how it caught the countries by surprise ~health Article 1488 words 7 votes
The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries ~humanities.history Article 2892 words 11 votes
Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR ~health healthcare Article 448 words 10 votes
Päivi Räsänen is facing new police investigations for citing Bible verses on social media to object to the Lutheran church's participation in an LGBT pride event ~lgbt Article 621 words 4 votes