Paul J. Schutz, is an assistant professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University. Thoughts are his own. In his famous 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” historian Lynn ...

A few weeks ago a man I met told me that he grew up in a big Catholic family, but once he started learning more about science as a teenager, he left Christianity behind. He couldn’t reconcile the ...

Every year on or around Epiphany, a group of Eastern Orthodox Christian faithful from Denver forms a carpool caravan and drives three hours to the Continental Divide at Monarch Pass, Colo. They make ...

Many say that universe and all its contents were directly created by God. But others question: If God created the universe, then who created God? Here is a partial list of deities believed to be the ...

For the first time, a letter written by Albert Einstein on the creation of the universe is for sale publicly at the Raab Collection in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. The letter, written on April 11, 1950, to ...

Is our cosmos the whole kaboodle, or is it merely one among an infinite number of universes? Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal tells the story of a fiendishly clever assassin who ...

Depending on who you ask, you might hear the idea that the universe is billions of years old, was created several thousand years ago, or, for creationists, the universe was created by God. But one ...

Giving a great American poet his due. We live in a culture that has largely lost its poetry—probably the only culture in human history to do so. At the end of the 19th century, the public and private ...