If you've visited the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, the name Father Mychal Judge may sound familiar. Father Judge, a ...

Samhain was a major Gaelic festival marking the end of harvest and the start of winter. Rooted in Neolithic Ireland, it was linked to ancestors, seasonal cycles, and sacred landscapes. Modern ...

One summer night, a former Methodist minister gazed out of a window and said he saw “a mysterious apparition in the sky.” It was a group of airborne horsemen galloping across the horizon, with a rough ...

Can everyone please stop talking about "Christian nationalism"? The phrase is way too polymorphous to be useful and all it does is exacerbate the disposition of believers to view liberals as their ...

A few days after the star singer Forrest Frank fell off his skateboard, crashed into a wall and fractured two vertebrae, he previewed a new track about the accident on TikTok. Frank, formerly a member ...

Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of the summer harvest and the ...

When the holiday of Halloween is mentioned, thoughts of candy, costumes and scary movies may come to mind. But that hasn't always been the case for the spooky holiday. There is a particular reason why ...

Samhain is upon us, and with it the summons to face the dark with fortitude. The word Samhain translates to “summer’s end,” and as practicing witch Dacha Avelin richly describes, “It is the threshold ...

The origins of Halloween can be traced back thousands of years in ancient Europe, where the Celtic people celebrated Samhain. According to History.com, this was a day the Celts believed the barrier ...

Fall is always rich with its own brand of magic, as the autumn equinox ushers in the darker half of the year, making it a time of gratitude and reverence for nature’s cycles. Halloween is an ...

One of the first uses of the word “Hallowe’en” occurred in John Maynes’ haunting 1780 poem of the same name. Now, every October 31st, people around the world recognize Halloween as a holiday. The ...