When most people think of Heaven, they imagine clouds, angels, and golden gates in the sky. But early Christian mystics didn’t see Heaven as a place you reached after death, they saw it as a spiritual ...

This year’s harvest happened as a ceasefire agreement was reached, spreading a tenuous hope for peace — peace that olive ...

A Massachusetts monk claims “insidious lies” about him being a fake cleric and splurging on luxury items led the feds to bring multimillion-dollar COVID-relief fraud charges against him — which were ...

A legendary alignment of St. Michael sanctuaries from Skellig Michael in Ireland to Mount Carmel in Israel, blends medieval pilgrimage, geography, and memories of Apollo’s older cult sites. Credit: ...

She levitates above her chair. An old man hurls a priest across the room. A young woman speaks full paragraphs in Bulgarian, a language she’s never studied. A man’s skin blisters at the sight of a ...

The new series of Porterville College Cultural and Historical Awareness Program, CHAP, lectures are dedicated to PC Professor emeritus Richard Osborne, who passed away in April, said Leslie Keele, PC ...

Porterville College’s Cultural and Historical Awareness Program (CHAP) is pleased to announce a special presentation by Dr. Jamie Kreiner, a leading historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle ...

The Seven Deadly Sins are integral to the world built by Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. The concept of these sins as mortal failings originated from the writings of Christian monk Evagrius Ponticus in ...

In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very place where God appeared to Moses via a burning ...