Moana is the daughter of the chief of her island. Her people farm and fish, content to be a world unto themselves.
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In July 2011, when South Sudan became the world’s newest independent country,
Pop and Christian contemporary icon Amy Grant returns to the Christmas music world withTennessee Christmas.
Newt Scamander is the type of man who nonchalantly hides an entire zoo of exotic animals in his carry-on suitcase
Eighty-one-year-old Mary Oliver is widely acclaimed for her wise, lyrical poetry that presents life as a spiritual pilgrimage.
Norah Jones—perfect music for Starbucks or a dinner party?
a unique book of 25 lovely readings about animals paired with glorious woodcuts
I write this review on the evening of the death of 82-year-old Leonard Cohen,
Arrival, the latest offering from French Canadian film director Denis Villanueve, steers far from the violent subject matter of his last, well-received movie, Sicario
Kent Annan is the co-director of Haiti Partners, a nonprofit developing education in Haiti,
“Strange” is an apt word for this doctor, whose origin story bends both matter and mind.
Partway through Bon Iver’s latest album, a pitch-shifted voice booms over top of a noisy clamor.
Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch theologian and statesman, has been very influential in Reformed thinking.
Brent Van Staalduinen’s expertly crafted debut novel begins with a thief robbing a thrift store at gunpoint and then pocketing a little silver box from an allegedly magic cubbyhole.
During World War II, a young man from Virginia named Desmond Doss passed up a possible deferment and joined the army, in spite of being a conscientious objector.
Just when we think we’ve heard every take on Handel’s classic, along comes a new recording by Emmanuelle Haïm.
Young Sefia is in danger. She has a strange object called a book
Singer-songwriter Tanya Godsey’s third album, Love Lines the Last Horizon, opens with a prayer that sets the lyrical tone for the entire album.
Owen Suskind stopped interacting with the world at the age of three.
Gina Ochsner’s second novel is a captivating, tragicomic story about family and community relationships in a contemporary Latvian town.
Children raised in Christian settings usually hear the Lord’s Prayer from an early age, internalizing its language and cadence without necessarily understanding its meaning.
On March 28, 2010, Kate and Andy Grosmaire’s lives were tragically altered when their 19-year-old daughter, Ann, was shot by her boyfriend, Conor.