Three hundred and fifty million years ago, tens of thousands of feet underground, an earth-shattering magma event took place. Nearly the entire event was invisible to any living creature. Beneath the ...

I read it in a book sometime that people should be wary of putting too much importance on “graven images.” There’s a lot in that book that is wise and, some say, sacred, but I’m not qualified to wade ...

(RNS) — 'Idolatry is counter to any religious idea worth its weight in salt. We Jews have a name for the tearing down of images that amplify and idolize racist hatred, anti-Semitism or bigotry of any ...

The stated goal of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville this year was to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. In the wake of the events that erupted, filmmaker Sierra Pettengill ...

The graven image of the Ten Commandments, as well as the name of its sponsor, Judge Roy Moore, will a) fade into history or b) get enshrined somewhere in Alabama. But the debates prompted by Moore’s ...

The truly graven image is the one of mobs tearing at Scandinavian embassies and consulates over cartoons. There’s no greater testament to the Islamic world’s utter backwardness, poverty of spirit and ...