Early Christian writers valorized the desert life of ascetic monks, but the city also had something to offer would-be “fools for Christ”.

Climate justice activists want countries of the Global North to make up for centuries of uneven industrialization, deforestation, extraction, and consumption.

In April 2010, representatives from 140 countries gathered in Bolivia to outline an explicitly anti-capitalist, decolonial agenda for the sake of the planet.

Reddit's popular AITA forum lets readers post and weigh in on everyday ethical questions. But it isn't the first public venue for those discussions.

Medieval monks used labor-saving innovations like the mill not to increase productivity, but to free up more time for what they wanted to do.

Patricia Bell-Scott's new book explores the friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, the poet and civil rights activist. 

A look at what evangelical voters want and expect from major Presidential candidates.