Merton was quick to admit he had never taken psychedelic drugs, and it seems he never did. But he had searching questions and ...

Siddharta renounced everything to take up the life of a wandering ascetic. Six years later, he attained enlightenment while ...

Wildcat is loyal to that prophetic gift. If 1950s adaptations of Flannery O’Connor’s work to the screen dishonored their ...

But a book about choosing not to eat necessarily raises the question of why anyone makes this choice. A body is where science ...

a rejection of asceticism, a populist movement that promised a direct and authentic relationship to God for everyone, including the poor, humble, and unlearned. Hasidism said that endless ...

Here's a look at who they are: This water sign is unpretentious who feels that more than renouncing worldly pleasures or ...

I accept to look at the grace that envelops me," he recounts. To connect to the present moment, philosopher and poet Éric de ...

The brand that lycra built sells a lot of trousers, some of them better than others. So we swaddled ourselves in stretchy, ...

An IOC member involved in the changes, Willi Daume, put it best when he pointed to the billion-dollar business the Olympics ...

The Hymn of Kassiane takes center stage on Holy Tuesday in the Orthodox church, as Greeks move closer to the end of Lent ...

Three Jain couples, guided by their children, will renounce material wealth to become monks at Sabarmati Riverfront. Inspired ...

People have always been drawn to Cape Cod. For centuries Native Americans, fishermen, sailors, farmers, professors, writers, families, the rich and the not-so rich have come to walk its beaches ...