The statue of a woman became a key symbol for the drummed up controversy surrounding the Synod. The naked, pregnant, painted body of an indigenous woman was used at the opening prayer service and at ...

DEAR BONNIE: I really want to communicate with my mom in Heaven. Can you give me some more information on how that would be possible? Thanks, Abigail DEAR ABIGAIL: When a loved one passes to the ...

As a rather noisy bird with repetitive movement, the woodpecker is sometimes poorly viewed and considered as a nuisance more than anything else. However, according to Amerindians, the woodpecker ...

NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J., Oct. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new chapter in sacred art has opened at Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausoleum with the unveiling of the Symbols of the Holy Spirit mosaics inside its ...

Religious symbols are technologies of transformation. The images, stories, and rituals of religion meet us where we are and carry us to some new place, to some new us. They grab hold of us in Kansas, ...

As early as November, I see and experience the Christmas season’s symbols and spirit. My wife sits in a small corner of our house, opening the old boxes of Christmas decor from past years’ ...

There’s resilience rising from the rubble. You can see it in the scowl of the werewolf statue on Fair Oaks Avenue. The tall, outsized beast stands tall, angling forward on a charred corner. Amid ...