In my new poetry collection I reclaim tragic heroines, or at least imagine a different ending to their stories ...

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Before The Life of a Showgirl was ever a glimmer in Taylor Swift’s eye, the singer peppered her music with references to classic literature. As early as 2006, Swift included ...

Broadcast protocols established nearly a century ago might seem to be a classic instance of technological-cultural lag — but ...

The Bible activates our imagination. Through my teens, my pastor did a masterful job helping the Scriptures come alive. Too often, the stories seem distant to us, more legend or myth. My pastor would ...

John 21:25 “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be ...

Luke 19:9-10: “And Jesus said unto him, ‘this day is salvation come to this house, for so much as he also is a son of Abraham. 10: For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” ...

We hear every day how polarized we are as a country. Conflict is all around us. We are daily bombarded in the media with the conflict between warring ideologies, whether political, religious or ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year marks the start of the High Holy Days, a period of introspection, prayer and renewal for Jewish communities around the world. When is Rosh Hashanah in 2025? The ...

The standard version of colonialism, explains Adam Kirsch in his provocative and important new book, involves a relatively small group of colonists—mostly colonial administrators, merchants, and ...

Data from the National Survey of Religious Leaders reveals that only 25% of Catholic and mainline Protestant pastors say they firmly believe in a literal Adam and Eve. Among Evangelical pastors, the ...