1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (307+ words) Cover to Thorn Season by Kiera Azar [Harper Collins] In Thorn Season, witches are not burned. They are caged and dissected. The Wielders who disappear in Daradon vanish into something worse than death. What the novel gradually reveals is that…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (277+ words) Note: There is a brief reference to suicide in this review. Every horror film teases our fear with something moving in the dark, something just out of sight. But the truly great ones take us to where the unbearable horror…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1020+ words) Essay Connects Ancient Views with Trumpism Statue of the Hermes, so-called "Hermes Ingenui, carrying a winged caduceus upright in his left hand. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE. Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums, Rome [public domain The…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (563+ words) BEIJING "Not everything has to end in doom and gloom, so here is a brief respite from the sturm und drang. For that, we turn to virtual reality (VR) research suggesting the brain can do truly remarkable things. A new…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (193+ words) Separate from the criminal case, Volz has filed multiple civil actions involving prison conditions and treatment while incarcerated. In Voltz v. Somerset County Jail (Civil Action No. 20-13695), court filings identify the plaintiff as Marina Voltz, though New Jersey Department of Corrections…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (433+ words) I joined 250 other attendees at the Embassy Suites in the wooded weirdness of Portland, Oregon. I braved parking in the Old Town neighborhood to join in Pagan community, learning, and fellowship. Yes, I hit the Voodoo Donuts. A Voodoo doughnut....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1228+ words) Cherry Hill Spring Commencement COLUMBIA, South Carolina " Cherry Hill Seminary honored eleven new graduates on Saturday, May 9, 2026," at the Spring Commencement. Selina Rifkin received her Master of Divinity in Ministry, Advocacy, and Leadership. Selina began her Seminary journey in 2008, took…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (509+ words) AJO, Arizona "A contractor for the Department of Homeland Security working on the expansion of the wall on the U. S. -Mexico border has reportedly destroyed part of the Las Playas intaglio, a sacred Indigenous geoglyph in the Sonoran Desert estimated to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (380+ words) The decision arrives amid a long evolution in how Americans understand conservation, stewardship, and the purpose of public lands; not only in environmental policy, but also in spiritual traditions that view the natural world as sacred. Seal of the United…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (280+ words) PRRI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 2009 that conducts research and polling at the intersection of religion, culture, and politics. The organization states that its mission is to inform journalists, scholars, clergy, and the public about the cultural and…...