Located in a remote part of New Zealand, the Gloriavale Christian Community has been compared to Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale. The secretive religious cult was founded in 1969 by Neville Cooper, ...

Many people come to therapy upon the realization that their past or existing religion has left them with emotional trauma. They may say things like: “I feel intense guilt whenever I stray from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brooke Walker grew up in an Arizona church community. Families, side by side, in communion with God and each other. But the church ...

Shared testimonies, collective singing, silent meditation and baptism rituals – these are all activities you might find at a Christian church service on a Sunday morning in the United States. But what ...

Some communities with religious origins now offer spiritual programming as just one of many enticements, like the bingo nights of yesteryear. By Tammy LaGorce Before Helen Leddy moved to Shell Point ...

Here’s what we can learn from the way faith communities stay rooted in the real world — and diminish the harms of the virtual one. Seth Kaplan, an author and lecturer, spent more than two decades ...

Nearly half of Americans who left religion cite the mistreatment or rejection of LGBTQ people as an important reason.

Within Drexel's campus community, there are various organizations, spaces, and resources for faculty, professional staff, and students in terms of religious and spiritual life. Regarding the various ...

Shuttered Lakeforest Mall. Photo by Carol Zimmerman. Malls are disappearing. The shopping centers nestled in America’s suburbs for the past several decades are closing faster than you could assemble a ...

The community was established as a Public Association of the Christian Faithful for Women in view of becoming a religious institute in the Diocese of Bismarck on Oct. 1, 2020. Mother Chiara Thérèse ...