The art historian James Elkins tells of his experience as one of four jurors for the 1990 exhibition “Revelations: Artists Look at Religions.” It was a big show with several famous artists in it, ...

Let it be said that no one comes to Safed for the food. There may be hundred-year-old goat cheese and heavenly halva here, but bottom line, it’s the spirituality that has drawn tourists and seekers to ...

Welcome to the season of the witch. Recently, the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted a Witches Brew film festival, which included the acclaimed new film “The Witch.” Lately it isn’t uncommon to see ...

Reading Tara Isabella Burton’s explanatory essay in the New York Times about the millennial underground movement she calls “Weird Christianity,” this old boomer felt a strong sense of déjà vu. In ...

LOS ANGELES — Around this time last year, as the world was gradually emerging from the haze of on-and-off COVID-19 lockdowns, artist Edgar Fabián Frías did a tarot reading for the city of Los Angeles.

Jesse Barker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Simon Critchley, the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Director of the Onassis Foundation, ...

Throughout history, the tacitly understood relationship between religion and science could be described as follows: these two institutions—or worldviews or domains of life or lenses for interpreting ...

MY SISTER SAYS her favorite weather is the moment just before a storm where the earth rolls and yawns with thunder. When she was little, she would ride her bike in looping circles in front of the ...