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The Rev. David Peck is an Episcopal priest in the heartland of Pennsylvania, a swing state at the center of the tense ...

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Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman ...

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Using a sheep’s liver to predict the outcome of the US election makes a serious point about how humans have coped with ...

As of then, Indian civilization’s antiquity had been traced up to the 3rd century BCE – in Mauryan Buddhist Emperor Asoka’s ...

It’s aimed at helping people take a deep breath — literally — and apply ancient techniques of prayer ... This doesn’t mean giving up one’s firm political convictions.

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome ... have violence injected into our political life. I had no idea that within ...