Rituals seem to be declining in modern life. Finding ways to gather together meaningfully can help us combat loneliness, pain ...

How Ritual Created the World — and How It Can Save Us, Bruce Feiler argues for the importance of ritual, insisting that ...

The holidays wouldn’t feel nearly as nostalgic without rituals. Maybe you always walk in the local turkey trot before your family preps the big feast. Perhaps you light blue candles instead of white ...

Sometimes we forget what rituals really mean until we are smack in the middle of one. Today’s first reading from Exodus and Gospel passage from Matthew both deal with ritual. In Exodus, God ...

We’ve all become a little too obsessed with habits—just look at the number of copies sold of James Clear’s Atomic Habits. Many of us try to turn as many daily actions as possible into habits so we can ...

A guide for the secular and the sacred alike. By Lauren Jackson I am the host of Believing. I hope you’re rested, because we’re entering the bender of December. My calendar looks like a tenuous Jenga ...

The author is a trained psychologist who teaches writing to would-be physicians and college students, and it shows. Her insights into herself and the human condition are masterful; her writing lyrical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kian Bakhtiari writes about Gen-Z marketing and social impact. Native American tribes performed rain dances to summon their ...