For Jeanne Murray Walker, poetry is puzzling but necessary.
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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
Ink is a dark, stylish fantasy that uses startling visuals, sharp dialogue, and exciting action to tell a story taking place on two pl
Danger lurks on t
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.
Jakob Dylan’s latest album opens with this: “God wants us busy, never giving up / He wants nothing but the whole wide worl
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.
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion—the same survey as Christian Smith’s Soul Searching—this fascinati
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.
Sigh No More, the latest album from Mumford and Sons, is a rousing chorus of blue
This book may not be one you’d nat
Fans of Over the Rhine will agree that The Long Sur
Rabbit Hole is challenging, not only because of the subject—Osca