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 ...
Moody Bible Institute and corporate evangelicalism. Some preachers serve as religious brand-names, standing in for entire movements. A North Carolina farm boy played that role in postwar ...
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 ...
Recently, Dhyan Foundation hosted a distinctive 6-night residential retreat in Jaipur centered around the Science of Yagyas and Divya Chikitsa Mantras. Under the leadership of Ashwini Guruji, the ...
Here is a proposition that may seem self-evident to many people: As societies become more modern, religion loses its grip. People separate their religion from their institutions and from parts of ...
From the New Yorker, a glimpse at the work of a Manhattan party planner. Here, Mauro helps a young Jewish private school girl and her mother prepare for her bat mitzvah, the ceremony in which a girl ...