If the prayer meme turns out to be the cry of a digital cosmos hungry for spiritual meaning and the human engagement it requires, as I pointed out a couple years back during the Chilean mine rescue, ...

Unsubstantiated rumors of "prayer rugs" found at the border have long circulated among ranchers and on the Internet.

After delivering a standout prayer during President Donald Trump's second inauguration on Monday, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of 180 ...

While Tik Tok's latest meme doesn't have an official name, it's highly recognizable on for-you-pages by the appearance of Pepe the King Prawn, the wild-haired Spanish Muppet character first ...

The phrase circulates after every mass shooting. To critics, the repetition of these shootings exists because no one is doing much else besides offer thoughts and prayers.

In his 2015 “Thoughts and Prayers” routine, he references the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, movie-theater shooting and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing as occasions for faux concern.

(RNS) The people behind a popular chain about President Obama and the National Day of Prayer might want to think about the sin of omission. That's omission, as in omitting facts. By Caryn Shinske.

The Department of Justice criticized Portland, Oregon, officials for not disclosing the existence of the offensive meme when they first learned about it.

There have been countless renditions of Madonna’s 1989 hit single “Like a Prayer.” While Tik Tok’s latest meme doesn’t have an official name, it’s highly recognizable on for-you-pages ...

In the days after a young man shot and killed 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, “thoughts and prayers” reached full semantic satiation, with memes and cynical jokes.

In one highly-shared image that circulated after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in February, “Thoughts and Prayers” is imprinted on the side of a garbage truck. Another meme shows an ...

National News How 'thoughts and prayers' went from common condolence to cynical meme Semantic satiation is the phenomenon in which a word or phrase is repeated so often it loses its meaning.