Fort Worth has always been proud of being a deeply religious community going back to the beginning of the 20th century when we styled ourselves “a city of churches.” Catholics, Protestants, and Jewish ...

William Sidney Mount, "Saul and the Witch of Endor," 1828. (Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.) Shannon Taggart spent almost two decades researching Lily Dale, New York, a ...

The Fox sisters, often credited as the founders of the Spiritualism movement, became famous after hearing knocking sounds in their house and eventually claiming the sounds were spirits communicating ...

Spiritualism captured the attention of the curious and the mourning, mediums, and illusionists — all of whose stories are explored in ‘Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums.’ It’s a ...

“Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums” delves into the eerie art and artifacts of the Spiritualist movement at The Ringling. This highly dramatic exhibition unfolds in two acts, first ...