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Madhu Pandit Dasa achieved every Indian family’s goal: obtaining a physics degree from one of the best universities in the ...

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans now identify as religious "nones," and new research from University of Nebraska–Lincoln sociologist ...

I try, on the next day and the next, to imagine I still have ashes on me, that I am constantly being called to live up to the beliefs I claim to hold.

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