Q: Your recent answer about displaying religious holiday decorations was a little confusing. You said it’s all right to display a Christmas tree, but not a manger? Easter bunnies, but not a cross? If ...

The important issue raised by your question and only briefly touched upon in my previous column is how we present our faith in both interfaith and secular settings. In our life together as the God ...

We know legend has it that after Pentecost, Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived out her days with John the Evangelist. We also know that when a Gospel story has lots of detail, scholars suggest that it ...

Extracted from: Visible religion (Leiden) 4 (5) 1985-1986, pages 63-72. The ancient Egyptian writing system is at once pictorial, phonetic and symbolic. The number of hieroglyphic symbols are thought ...

In Hinduism, Gods do not stand alone. They are surrounded by symbols, animals, and natural elements that carry meaning beyond the surface. A snake, a squirrel, a mouse, a lion, or even a leaf each is ...