Historically, snow from the Cascade and Blue mountains would melt slowly over months, releasing a flow of cold water that sustained salmon and other wildlife in the Columbia River.
Mail Online
| 2/11/2019
| Luke Kenton For Dailymail.com
Five former members of the evangelical christian group once know as New Tribes Mission have spoken out about the horrendous sex abuse they suffered as children. The women attended mission schools in...
An American missionary in Brazil is under investigation and may be charged by authorities with genocide for making illegal contact with a remote indigenous tribe, potentially exposing them to...
In the wake of the death of John Chau by the hands of the remote tribe he sought to reach with the Gospel, the internet is alight with criticism that Christian missions are more akin to colonialism,...
Meet Bajau Laut, one of the last sea gypsy tribes in the world. Living in the great ocean in water villages, beneath the beautiful blue skies of Sabah, Malaysia may sound idyllic, but these come at...
Which Pacific Northwest streams will warm the most in the next 50 years, and where would restoration work make a difference for salmon? Where will wildfires and pests be most aggressive in forests...
Catholic Herald
| 11/17/2018
| Michael Warren Davis and Damian Thompson
The Catholic Herald’s new US readers know that this is a horrible time for American Catholics. Mass-goers were assured that the Church had tackled clerical sex abuse.
The revelation has been published in Science today (Thursday, November 8 at 14:00 US Eastern Time) as part of a wide ranging international study that genetically analysed the DNA of a series of...
I like to think I am a brave parent, right up until the moment I actually have to be brave. I talk a good game, know most of the buzz words and occasionally act like I have a few things figured out.
As Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reveals her DNA test purporting to show she has anywhere between 0.1 percent to 1.56 percent Native American ancestry, the liberal lawmaker remains ineligible for...
Mail Online
| 9/21/2018
| Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Heavy metal fans communicate with one another at concerts in a similar fashion to members of remote rainforest tribes, scientists say. The rules followed by so-called metalheads in mosh pits – an...
It sounds odd to say it, but I remember a time when opening my Facebook page was entertaining. In the carefree days of university, when I’d be twenty pages into my Rationalists 101 reading, I would...
A dozen lavish medieval graves holding the remains of 13 people have finally spilled their genetic secrets, now that researchers have constructed a family tree of the people buried there.
N., an exceptionally well-informed lay Catholic, tells me that there are two basic tribes of gay bishops and priests. The first tribe is the Progressives — some sexually active, others not — who...
Sometimes Vikki Preston is inching her way through the forest when she comes across a grove of tan oak trees that feels special. The plants are healthy, the trees are old, and their trunks are...
Our connected world has brought modern ways and technology to even the furthest corners, but what many would view as positive progress has also put rural and remote tribes and their traditions at...
Mail Online
| 8/6/2018
| Charlie Moore For Mailonline
Life for Vietnam's 54 tribes is changing rapidly as globalisation and technology threaten their very existence. Clans who once counted elephants as family now smoke cigars, use Facebook on their...
The government is asking two American Indian tribes to return thousands of federal dollars spent on a Christmas party and gifts. This is to justify millions more that the tribe might have improperly...
After the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, pundits and academics have begun to take a serious look at the influence of political and cultural tribalism.
Nedaa Syria: Tribal clashes have been renewed near the Lebanese-Syrian border and have expanded over the past few days under criticism from Hezbollah and the Syrian regime and accusations of failure...
Mail Online
| 6/22/2018
| Julian Robinson for MailOnline
These stunning pictures show the last generation of the 'plug nose' women who once had their nostrils stuffed by elders to make them less attractive to hostile tribes.
This post may – but is by no means calculated – to tick off some GetReligion readers. That possibility is undoubtedly magnified by my taking an alternative position to one of last week’s most...
“”Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?” is the subtitle of a recent article in Foreign Policy. It describes traditional but still-existent customs of many...
In recent years, certain tribes in the Amazon region have been in the news because of their unpleasant habit of killing deformed or handicapped children as well as twins, and even offspring of...
Four years after Frank Seifart started documenting endangered dialects in Colombia, the guerillas came. In 2004, soldiers from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia swept past the Amazonian...
Some indigenous tribes in Brazil kill twins, children born with disabilities, and those born to single mothers because they are seen as bad omens. Children who have escaped this practice are...
In light of my recent posts about post-evangelical Christian loss and nostalgia, our longing for a tribe, let me point you to Christine Emba's recent column in the Washington Post, "Liberalism is...
I wanted to make one other comment before moving on from this series about tribes and progressive Christianity. In Part 3 we asked the question, "If progressive Christians would like a tribe, why...
A part of the reason post-evangelicals have a hard time emotionally moving on from evangelicalism is that a part of them misses it. What’s hard is losing friends, a community, a sense of belonging, a...
In my post yesterday about raising Millennials as liberals, I bet a few readers were thinking, "What about the Benedict Option?" That is, isn't one of the big points made by Rod Dreher in his book...
The other reason I've been thinking about tribes has to do with raising our children in the church. Last week I wrote about our small group discussing our being raised in smaller, more conservative...
The question I left us with last week in Part 4 was if we can create a tribe without all the bad stuff. I think so, I hope so. I do think, however, that every tribe brings into our lives a suite of...
I started this series on tribes because of a conversation in our small group. Jana and I are a part of a small group at our church, a group of four couples who gather on Sunday nights to share life...
So the root of post-evangelical nostalgia seems to be our deep, human longing for a tribe. Progressive post-evangelicals look back at their time as being a part of a tribe as a time when they...
Sebastian Junger's recent book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging makes the argument that the great source of suffering in our modern world is the loss of tribe, the loss of belonging to a tight knit...
It's not news to anyone that many progressive, post-evangelical Christians are obsessed with evangelicalism. They are, after all, post-evangelicals. Relation - Christianity - Lot - Christianity -...
We are more connected today than at any time in our species' history, yet isolated pockets of people still manage to live apart from the majority of society. It's impossible to know exactly how many...
An Alaskan tribal council voted Thursday to aide the Department of the Interior in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of environmental organizations over a federal land swap with a remote community in...
A pair of Native American tribes are locked in a legal battle with state regulators to keep their gaming centers open in Texas. The Tiguas tribe operates a casino on its reservation near El Paso,...
It is the largest monument from the ancient era in northern Europe, but Hadrian's Wall in fact has an older and more northern brother. Archaeologists have been carrying out research into a huge late...
In both Chile and Peru last week, Pope Francis addressed the plight of those two nations’ indigenous tribes that have been on the losing end of interactions with European colonizers since the dawn...
When Butch Jacobs steps into the woods in search of basket making materials, he does not have a specific type of forest or black ash tree in mind, but he knows it when he sees it.
If you ask Dakota Access pipeline protesters what they are angry about, you’ll get answers ranging from “white man’s greed” to protection for “sacred water.” The truth of the matter does boil down...
Mail Online
| 10/17/2017
| Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
Engraved burial costumes from Viking boat graves that supposedly provided evidence of contact between Nordic tribes and ancient Islam contain 'no Arabic at all', according to an expert who has...
Monday was Columbus Day, or as liberals have taken to calling, “Indigenous People’s Day.” Democrats love sowing division, blaming Europeans for all of the world’s ills, and elevating the status of...
Mail Online
| 10/7/2017
| Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com
Jennifer Garner was pretty in pink at the world premiere of her movie, The Tribes of Palos Verdes, at the 25th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival on Friday.
Mail Online
| 10/4/2017
| Harry Pettit For Mailonline
An engraved reindeer antler has revealed that ancient European hunter-gatherer groups traded 'spiritual gifts' over hundreds of miles. Scientists claim that a 12,000-year-old antler found at a site...
Mail Online
| 9/21/2017
| Joe Sheppard For Mailonline
Amusing footage has emerged of tribesmen from around the world bursting into hysterics after being shown Morris dancing for the very first time. The clip, from the BBC's Tribes, Predators and Me...
Mail Online
| 1/14/2018
| Harry Mount for the Daily Mail
They were one of the most bloodthirsty tribes on Earth. When the Scythians took to the battlefield, it was claimed the air was so thick with bronze-tipped arrows that the sun was blotted out.
The indigenous peoples of Canada were thanked at every gala screening to play the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Gala screenings are starry affairs with long red carpets, held at...