In ancient Rome, hope was venerated as a minor goddess, Spes, but usually on a communal, national level. Politically, Spes ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — Students in University of Iowa professor Jay Holstein’s courses knew not to sit in the aisle ...

BRITTANY JOHNSON BROKE THIS STORY. SHE’S HERE NOW WITH HOW THIS WHOLE THING UNRAVELED. BRITTANY MARIA ED. PROSECUTORS SAY THE SUSPECT WAS PEDDLING LOVE AND LIES ON A CHRISTIAN DATING SITE. AND IT COST ...

Focus of teaching and scholarship: My background is in chemical biology: developing and using chemical tools to help solve intractable problems in biology, specifically, for me, virology. Viruses are ...

Eight years ago, religious conservatives made a bargain with Donald Trump, accepting the leadership of a flagrant immoralist as the price of protection against a then-ascendant-seeming secular ...

Charlie Kirk considered his religious faith his most important legacy. Kirk criticized the separation of church and state, believing Christian morals should influence lawmaking. Kirk and his wife ...

One year, for Hanukkah, my grandmother gave me the Book of Mormon. She was not trying to convert me. She was not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was Jewish, though a ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Russell T. McCutcheon had a Zoom call with the chair of a religious-studies department who wanted to get ahead of what has come to seem like an existential crisis in the field.

Tracking every Trump administration pronouncement on religion can be a dizzying project. Religion has found its way into multiple executive orders, new commissions and task forces, Truth Social posts, ...

In his first half-year in office — amid his tariff campaign, government-slashing moves and immigration crackdown — President Donald Trump has also repeatedly delivered for conservative Christians, who ...

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Once a persecuted faith on the fringes of the empire, Christianity became the official religion of Rome transforming its identity, politics, and legacy forever. This video explores the pivotal events, ...