In an age of iTunes downloads and “American Idol” crooners, this

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn.

Stanley Hauerwas says we can’t understand the “what” of Christianity without knowing the “how” of being

For Jeanne Murray Walker, poetry is puzzling but necessary.

In a profound yet clearly understandable manner, N. T.

Sandra McCracken’s latest album, In Feast or Fallow

The fastest long-distance runners are from a secreti

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Hunger and poverty are the result of our sinful selfishness that subverts values and warps distribution systems.

In this book, Anchee Min admirably achieves her goal: t

Many churches are choosing to show videos as an alternative to readings or drama.

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According to Sir Francis Bacon, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” And accor

How do you love someone who is hard to love?

In Bowling Alone (Touchstone), Robert D.

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Babies are endlessly fascinating, and so is this documentary now out on DVD.

When Patricia MacLachlan was asked to write a book about her life as an author, she responded with a fictional account of a visiting&n

Olivia Tschetter leaves her doctoral defense to learn that her mother has died.

Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Is it proper to say “different from” or “different than”?

Forty years after the birth of the band Led Zeppelin, former lead singer Robert Plant has been reborn as an interpreter of Americana r

So far no one has asked me to join The Academy in voting on who should win the Oscars.