This past summer, I wound up in a Tarot reader’s tent at a seaside town fair. She asked me to shuffle her deck, and then she spread the cards out in a semi-circle. I closed my eyes and, as instructed, ...

As an ex-Evangelical kid who grew up in Amish country in the Northeast, I never really felt tied to anything — least of all religion. It's hard to trust or instill faith in anything when all your life ...

"Every reading is kind of like a snowflake," 28-year-old Bay Area tarot reader Alese Osborn tells me before reading my cards over the phone. It's Wednesday, Osborn's day off from her hectic ...

My social circle of lapsed Catholics, exvangelicals, and other “deconstructing” Christians may have lost the narrative threads we followed for much of our lives, but we can rattle off our rising signs ...

Originally published in WBUR’s ideas and opinion section, Cognoscenti. Executive Director Alissa Quart explores how she and ...