Cultural objects tell us who we are and what we value. They ground us in the past, wrap us into a community, and connect us to the spiritual world. They reassure and comfort, charm and celebrate. Cultural objects are the...
South of the equator, the Milky Way tracks directly overhead. Northern-hemisphere stargazers are understandably jealous. Astrophysicist Becky Smethurst explains why the Milky Way is more visible below the equator. No surprise that this galactic wonder fired the Incan imagination across...
According to the ancient Incas, spirits inhabit physical spaces—waterfalls, mountains, caves, rock piles. These energies are called huacas, a Quechua word for sacredness or holiness. High in the Andes today, the Inca posterity, villagers growing potatoes and quinoa or herding...
For nearly three years home has been the Peruvian Andes, in a farming village with no paved roads, beneath snowcapped peaks (here’s the view from our front door →) in the Sacred Valley of the Incas and not far from...
Jesus isn’t always nice. One time he pretty much called a Canaanite woman a dog, one with no standing or claims on him, a Jewish prophet. Two of the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew and Mark) describe the strained encounter....
On December 6, 2017, the United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. A few months later on May 14, 2018, the US embassy officially moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Both moves previewed President Trump’s 181-page Peace to...
