Across India’s spiritual imagination, few images are as enduring as that of Lord Krishna standing beneath a Kadamba tree in Vrindavan, flute resting lightly against his lips. The scene appears simple ...

It is also to see with spiritual awareness. Spirituality is a deep experience of life. We can see the world as more than a ...

Many believe daily rituals, like watering the Peepal tree, can mitigate planetary influences, particularly Saturn's. This ...

Baraka Shamia’s ‘You Will Not Certainly Die’ fuses darkness, symbolism, and protest into a striking, thought-provoking ...

In St. Luke’s Gospel, Zacchaeus climbs a tree in order to see Christ above the crowd (Luke 19:1-10). It is an unexpected ...

Few plants are as strongly associated with Greek culture as the bay laurel for its culinary value and deep symbolic value ...

Holy Monday is the first of the six weekdays leading up to Easter, called Great and Holy Week in the Christian world.

I chose the word heartwood for the title of my book because it carries two meanings. First, the heartwood is the centermost ...

Palm Week is the sixth week of Great Lent, which includes two important Orthodox holidays: Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday. In 2026, it will run from March 30 to April 5. About t ...

Someone once said the true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. It’s a sentiment ...

The cedar was grown from a seed traced to a 1960 gift from Lebanon to Washington, D.C., and could live for a century.

My father is only five-11 but nonetheless exudes a Dick Butkus–like immensity with a sloping, broad-shouldered back, a round Buddha face atop an invisible neck, and limbs like marble pillars. In his ...