Religious
Artist Makes Sculptures Using Human Skulls, Taxidermy & Crystals
We catch up with Kyle Montgomery ahead of his Melbourne and Sydney shows.
'Creation Care' May Make Environmentalists Out of the GOP
A coalition of religious groups, hunters, and fishers may push the Republican Party toward embracing more progressive environmental policies — and perhaps even on climate change.
The Ritual Slaughtering of Chickens on New York Streets Is Officially Legal
Despite the efforts of animal-rights groups, Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn are free to swing chickens above their heads and slit their throats in the streets.
An Arcade Meets a Temple at the Brooklyn Museum
FAILE discuss the oppositions structuring their new large-scale exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
Collage Artist Combines Catholicism and Pop Culture
Mannerist painting and hip-Hop culture come together in Rodriguez Calero’s show 'Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos.'
The Christian Church Continues to Spurn Transgender Clergy
Transgender priests like Father Shannon Kearns even have trouble finding work or acceptance with supposedly liberal or progressive churches.
How a Thor-Worshipping Religion Turned Racist
Fans of 'The Avengers' aren't the only lovers of Thor. We looked into the current observations of Odinism and Asatru, religions that celebrate the Norse gods, to reveal their dark, white supremacist underbelly.
How Israel's Next Government Will Be Decided
Coalitions and kingmakers: VICE News explains the complicated nature of Israeli politics as the country goes to the polls on Tuesday.
Have the Good Times Come to an End at Indonesia’s ‘Sex Mountain’?
For centuries, pilgrims have traveled to a hill in Central Java to have sex with strangers in hopes of receiving blessings, but the government has shut the ritual down.
Please Stop Believing
I like to think of myself as an equal-opportunity offender, that all religions are just different sides of the same million-or-so-headed coin to me. The specifics of what ancient person has what magic power according to whatever secret text is simply a...
Ones and Zeros 5/23/11: France Says 'Oui Oui' for Internet Manners, Black-Holes Bare All in New Photo Shoot
_History has such a limited return on investment. Nothing we can learn from it, no ways to improve upon it. It's for the best that those insomniacs who were archiving the world's newspapers for the last five years can call it quits. Let's just get some...
Fat Camp Mem'ries
When I was 14 I went to fat camp. It was completely voluntary. The only problem was that I wanted to go to Camp Shane, a famous fat camp in the Catskills that has a great reputation.