During a recent trip to Tulsa, Okla., I asked a roomful of high school seniors if they wanted prayer at their graduation. Most said yes, with the notable exception of the student who would actually speak at the ceremony the class valedictorian.
Im a Hindu, she said, and I just dont think it would be right for me to impose my prayers on other people at a school event thats supposed to be
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The Eureka Springs City Council is drafting a contract to take control of an outdoor art exhibit that some people find offensive.
The Artery exhibit, which has been on display since September, contains 26 paintings, and includes the Virgin Mary and Alice in Wonderland as subjects. The exhibit’s theme is icons, both religious and cultural.
Mayor Dani Joy said she’s had several telephone calls
The Sutton Hoo ship burial was uncovered 70 years ago this month. Arts Editor Andrew Clarke spoke to National Trust archaeologist Angus Wainwright about the story surrounding one of Britain’s greatest historic treasures.
War clouds were gathering over Europe. It was 1939, Neville Chamberlain was scuttling back and forth to Munich and Berlin, declaring there would be peace in our time but in Suf
Police said that they are investigating the strange Nazi and runic graffiti in the hopes of tracking down whos leaving the coded messages most recently on the pedestrian foot bridge on East 14th Street and Shore Parkway back on May 13.
Members of the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force are on the case, although sources said that the graffiti could not be considered bias because it wasnt solely di
As several people looked on in horror yesterday afternoon, a 47-year-old city woman slit the throat of a rooster and splashed its blood on a gravestone at Bellevue Cemetery, police said.
Witnesses told police the woman, later identified as Maria Portalatina, of 97 Oak St., placed candles around the grave, pulled out a rooster that was tied at the feet and sliced it open. She then sprayed the bl
Worshippers still flock to the grave of Rahman Baba, a Muslim mystic revered by millions in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But they now pray at a mound of rubble and twisted steel all that remains of his tomb since militants bombed it.
As in other countries where Islam replaced earlier religions, the faith widely practiced in Pakistan is different to that in its birthplace, the Arabian peninsula.
An interest in herbs and using them for medicine and food earned him questions and strange looks years ago, but not nowadays, Bob Liebert says.
Better known as creator and proprietor of Teter Creek Herbs, Liebert says interest in herbs is considerably more widespread and accepted than when he got interested in useful plants.
“I’ve been doing this for almost 30 years,” Liebert said. “When I f
Sgt. Jason A. Schumann was killed May 19, 2007 when a bomb exploded near his vehicle in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq. He is bured at Fort Snelling cemetery, where his headstone is marked with a pentacle. Sgt. Schumann was a Pagan.
The right for Pagans soldiers and veterans to have the pentacle inscribed on their headstones and memorials was one fought for very hard by Pagan communities throughout the cou
A doctor was forced to apologise to one of his patients after receiving a complaint that he ‘oozed Christianity’.
The pagan woman claimed her GPs’ religion made it ‘impossible for her to forge a doctor/patient relationship.’
She also claimed her medication was changed drastically and he had made ‘condescending and threatening’ statements to her.
Amazingly, the Healthcare Commission found
