Quakers attend a Sunday worship in the historic West Room of the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia on Oct. 5. The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — At the Arch Street Meeting House in ...

One of America’s best-known political scientists has been turning his attention to religion. In this interview, Charles Murray discusses his new book and the slow, unexpected path that took him from ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some interpretations suggest that, “kissing under the mistletoe symbolizes forgiveness, ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Fraser Nelson’s contention that the Scottish Enlightenment came in reaction to a period of Presbyterian theocracy made me scratch my head.’ ...

The order of the Knights Templar was officially founded in 1119 AD by a group of nine prominent knights, led by Hugues de Payens (Hugo de Paganis). Besides Payens, the other knights were recorded as ...

Diagoras was the first known atheist, whose bold critique of the gods was crucial in shaping early Greek secular thought.

EXCLUSIVE: There’s been so much buzz about who will play a younger version of Scott Bakula’s popular NCIS: New Orleans character Dwayne Pride in Season 2 of CBS‘ NCIS: Origins, and the wait is finally ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...