Hello! My name is Abigail Segel (she/her) and I'm a Religious Studies student with minors in Psychology and Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies. I am from Pittsburgh,...
Listening to Philosophize This! recently, I encountered an episode discussing Ludwig Feuerbach's views on religion. Feuerbach posited that the image of God in any given era reflects the virtues and...
In the first lines of the poem The Night Before Christmas, the narrator had just settled down for a long winter鈥檚 nap before being awoken by a visit from Santa Claus. For anyone feeling like 2024...
On Thanksgiving Day, my family walked to the largest church building in Canada, St. Joseph鈥檚 Oratory. It was just a break from a day of cooking and lounging before we sat down to eat....
I was walking to class. The weather was awful; bitter cold temperatures that chilled to the bone. Raging winds did not help, succeeding in driving an icy feeling through ones warm flesh and blood....
I come home, and I hear "Churaliya" playing in the kitchen CD player as my mom is cooking dinner. I smile discreetly to myself as I casually walk in, and settle to my room. Hmm. One song has the...
On the 25th of the month of Kislev in the Jewish calendar, Jews around the world will light Chanukah candles in their homes. This act commemorates the miracles that occurred at the time of the...
The performing arts have a legitimate place in public religious ceremonies. In fact, a religious ceremony is in itself performance art of the highest order. The preparation and presentation of a...
What do you see when you look at my face? Loneliness, isolation, seclusion? What do you see when you look in my eyes? Dejection, desperation, dreariness? I am a Muslim woman, after all. I am both...
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