Some prayers find their way back quickly, like sunlight glancing off water. Others seem to drift into the distance and never ...

Every year on the Jewish High Holidays I send you an edited version of my High Holiday sermon. The differences between this one and the one I preached is that this one lacks some jokes, but on the ...

For the past 10 years, Noche de Altares (Night of Altars) has pleased thousands of visitors and made it possible for many residents and groups to share something as intimate as Día de los Muertos (Day ...

My son “Dave” is 25 years old and living independently. He does well enough at his job and has pretty much fully left the nest. But he also, and this is his own term, “spiritually experiments” and has ...

If you’ve ever seen an altar bursting with colorful flowers, candles and personal mementos, there’s a good chance you were looking at an ofrenda. An ofrenda is a special altar created during Día de ...

Tim, 30, vividly recalls the surprise he felt four years ago when he first saw people burning paper money, clothes and cars as offerings to their ancestors. The man from Cumbria, England, was struck ...

There is a small temple in Bien Hoa City with a strange name - Mieu Ba Khoanh - that describes a snake rolling itself into a ball. Locals worship with raw pork at the temple every year. Mai Thi Tong ...