Play, faith, ritual and commerce mingle and sometimes clash in the world of religious-themed toys explored in an engaging book by a pair of religious studies professors. Authors Nikki Bado-Fralick and ...

Jaguar Bennett stars in the one-man comedy show “Start Your Own Religious Cult for Fun and Profit” at the 2017 Rogue Festival. Special to The Bee “Let us pray.” With those words, Jaguar Bennett begins ...

Australian Muslim comedian Frida Deguise got into stand-up by accident. Twelve years ago, she made an off-hand joke to colleagues about all Muslims being "terrorists" and "gangsters". It was at a time ...

Less than a quarter of Americans -- and Christians -- avoid Halloween due to its pagan roots. This is good news. Many believe Halloween originated as a Celtic pagan festival when the souls of the dead ...

Predictions are always hazardous, but here's one I feel pretty good about: 2011 will be remembered as the year when religious freedom came into focus as the premier social and political concern of the ...

REDMOND -- It wasn't a terrible, swift sword that materialized in the yellow and red paint he smeared on a sheet. But to 4-year-old Kyle deBruyn, it was close enough. Here was, if not clarity, ...

How about this for a comedy film pitch? It's early Christmas Day morning and a young wannabe terrorist boards a plane with a hefty load of explosives stuffed down his underpants. He's waited a long ...

Elaine Stritch grew up Catholic but went on to embrace, most of all, a devotion to fun. Her career shows why that matters. “I don’t think I’m gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ...