Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

Archaeologists excavating a sewer system from the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica in Bulgaria have just uncovered a ...

This day of love, Valentine’s Day, is a real oxymoron with a sordid history of beheadings, blood sacrifices, Roman, Greek and ...

Jesus’ followers are called “disciples” (Greek mathētai); they follow and learn from their Rabbi Jesus who teaches them how the Kingdom of God works in the hearts of human beings and in earthly ...

Matters of the heart do not abide by the rules and regulations of the mind.” – Amarie Avant “What matters most is what’s inside your heart” is a common phrase that people often say when engaging ...

Also, there are influential voices on social media who claim that calling on the name of Jesus is blasphemy, Christmas is idolatry, and celebrating Easter is unholy. They claim that Jesus is the name ...

Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.

Every year on February 14th, people around the world celebrate love—or complain about their lack of it. Most people associate ...

February the Fourteenth has been a day to give love to others in the name of Saint Valentine. But who is he? Is Valentine's a religious holiday…or Pagan all the way? Where did chocolate come in? Who’s ...

The kosher laws of the Jews that mark what is “clean” and “unclean” did not just cover food; the Jews also had nothing to do with “unclean people”—the pagans around them and the schismatic Samaritans ...

This period bridges ancient pagan customs with Christian practices, creating a unique cultural blend.Unmute Tsiknopempti, or ...

The Greek island of Crete has its own saint connected to love, namely Saint Yakinthos, comparable to St. Valentine.