James Taylor is a prominent Canadian theologian who has written 15 books on faith and grief, taught religion at several colleges and been the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. But ...

Nearly 40 years later, Winona Ryder is reprising her role as Lydia Deetz in Tim Burton’s "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." The star of the 1988 classic "Beetlejuice" recently admitted that she felt the film ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Since the advent of functional neuroimaging in the early 1990s, the temptation to peek into the brains of people praying, meditating, or speaking in tongues has been irresistible. As is often the case ...

You are already a child of God, equipped with everything you need to begin resonating with the divine. That does not mean you are morally or psychologically perfect. Not at all. But you will now have ...

Not long ago, a family member sent me a message linking my sexual orientation to painful events in our family history and describing my identity as spiritually disordered and in need of correction.

When I was a senior at Harvard in 2014, I took LSD at the encouragement of a friend who described it as potentially eye-opening. At the time, I was an atheist. By the end of that single experience, I ...