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It would be easy to situate the vilification of Islam and Muslims in America within a nativist historical arc, one where the most recently arrived minority [...]

(RNS) — Against a backdrop of incense and multicolored lights, speakers shared how their lives had been transformed by plant medicine.

Philip Incao was about 6 years old when he asked his mother if it was true he would die. Yes, she replied. And what happens afterward? he asked.

“. . . People are now more likely than ever to bypass religion altogether and to look toward popular culture for guidance."

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A small Colorado town maintains the country’s only public outdoor funeral pyre. Philip Incao saw it as his own perfect ending.

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