Outrage. Pain. Speculation. These were the sentiments shared by many online communities last week during the bombings at the Boston Marathon and subsequent manhunt. But while other online communities battled and knit-picked over the validity of under-sourced details, we saw kindness, a spirit of generosity and a ton...

I didn't realize how important spirituality in the world of modern medicine is to me until someone asked if I wanted spiritual support during my hospital stay for an upcoming knee surgery. As the community editor of HuffPost Religion, I wondered how our commenters felt about spiritual support so I...

I recently asked followers of HuffPost Books on Twitter and Facebook what poem changed their life. The question was inspired after my life was changed by a poet.

The poet who changed my life is Miss Quote, a Jamaican-born poet who got her start...

Dislocation is something photographer Suchitra Vijayan is no stranger to. She grew up in India but hasn’t lived there in 11 years, yet she’s often referred to as an Indian photographer. She hates that. We all can get a little disrupted when location defines our identity, especially for...

When Ian Spanier was six years old, back in his hometown of Hastings, New York, his parents handed him his first camera. Since then, he’s taken his lens out for sports stars, supermodels and celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Steven Taylor. Coming from a modest locale like...

I recently sent a catch up text to an old coworker. We worked together in a pretty unfulfilling environment last year. My text went unanswered for a while. In the shared frustration of our former work environment, she used to tell me how hard she worked for Masters degree in...

Before Lady Gaga was on the cover of Rolling Stone, she was just a girl named Stefani performing in a downtown bar. Captured on the Lower East Side by a New York nightlife photographer, we see her pre-rockstar pout in this week’s Moving Image photo essay in Huffington....

If you are intensely misunderstood, you want Diego Ravier to be your photographer.

He doesn't just identity subjects to photograph. He helps his subjects find identity. That was the case with persons affected by albinism, the subject of a recent Huffington magazine photo essay by Ravier, a...

For the past five years photographer Fiona Aboud has been traveling around the U.S. taking pictures of Sikh Americans. Part of her series, Sikhs: An American Portrait was recently featured in Huffington as the general public was gathering more information about Sikhs after the

When photojournalist Ana Nance arrived in Egypt for The United Nations World Tourism organization conference, she knew camel rides and presentations on the Arab Spring’s affect on tourism was the plan. The other journalists might have been content with that, but not Nance. Known for her globetrotting sociological instinct, she...

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Even though I was lying in the sand on a Saturday morning, my experience was far from relaxing. Lying quickly turned to leg dropping. I was working out with celebrity trainer Jackie Warner. The sand was our gym. Our bodies? The weights.

An advocate for...

It’s common for sons and daughters to express their love and gratitude to their dads on Father’s Day. Yet here at HuffPost Religion, we wanted to put the spotlight on dads themselves.

Starting on Twitter, we asked, “How does your faith influence your life as a dad?”...

I wasn't expecting a priest to equip me for life but he did. It started on the first day of theology class in catholic high school in Pennsylvania.

My theology teacher was a blind priest. In our discussion-based religion course, he identified students by the sound of...

When it comes to picking a go-to workout, we all know we're not going to stick with something we hate to do. Whether it's yoga, or dance class or running, many of us have given up on what we once swore was going to be the fix for our "But...

People love to say that you never forget how to ride a bike. No one ever tells you that you might actually not remember the learning part. That's what happened to me when during a recent work meeting on National Bike To Work Week -- I blurted out...

In honor of Mother’s Day, HuffPost Religion asked our community to reflect on how their mother shaped their faith. We put a callout on Facebook and Twitter asking for lighthearted or serious stories about mothers. We received nine stories that provided a crystallization of the eternal impressions our mothers have...

This week, water is my day job. The American Waterworks Association is celebrating the 30th annual Drink Water Week, and, in honor of that, HuffPost Healthy Living recently rounded up ways to trick yourself into drinking more. As the community editor, I'm collecting photos of

Craving a late afternoon snack? For many of us, satisfaction is found in the form of a vending machine.

But what if instead of a bag of Cheetos, out came a perfectly-portioned string cheese? Or what if instead of a blueberry Pop Tart, four quarters got you a handful of...

When the Dalai Lama learned he had been awarded the Templeton Prize, his response was to insist that he is nothing more than a simple Buddhist monk. The Templeton Prize is one of the most prestigious religious prizes in the world; and the Dalai Lama is...