Is Christmas a Religious Holiday? A Growing Number of Americans Say No

A long-simmering debate continues over how American society should commemorate the Christmas holiday. A Pew Research Center survey finds that most U.S. ...

Court Rejects Romanian's Legal Claim of Being Alive

A man returned to his native country to find that the authorities no longer believed in his existence upon this mortal plane. Constantin Reliu returned ...

Skeptical Disciples Did Not Hallucinate a Resurrected Jesus

In his book “Unbelievable” Justin Brierley asks:

Were the disciples just hallucinating that they saw the resurrected Jesus? Hallucinations ...

Do You Have Friggatriskaidekaphobia?

Friday the 13th isn't an unlucky day—unless you have "friggatriskaidekaphobia." That's the term psychologists give the small number ...

Norway's New Passion: Ghost Hunting

Like many Europeans, Marianne Haaland Bogdanoff, a travel agency manager in this southern Norwegian town, does not go to church, except maybe at Christmas, ...

Prominent Author Experiences An Almost-Conversion

A classic example of an almost-conversion to Christ happened to Lord Kenneth Clark, one of Great Britain's most prominent art historians and authors, ...

Closing Your Eyes doesn't Hide the Truth

Former Maryland poet laureate Lucille Clifton wrote a poem in which she pictures herself trying to keep her eyes closed, ignoring the truth. But then ...

Atheist's Daughter Dances for Joy to Know that God Exists

Sofia Cavaletti is a researcher who has pioneered the study of spirituality in young children. She finds that children often have an amazing perception ...

Scientist Argues that the Bible and Science Agree

In his book Amazing Truths; How the Bible and Science Agree, scientist and science writer Dr. Michael Guillen's argues that the Bible's view of ...

Narnia's Susan Outgrew Her Love for that Blessed Land

Where's Susan? That's the innocent question Joshua Rogers's daughter asked as they were reading The Last Battle, the final book in The Chronicles ...