New Year’s Day usually feels anticlimactic, and this one likely will be no different for many people. I find myself looking ...

At 67 years old, Rick Black turned from journalism to poetry. In last year’s Two Seasons in Israel: A Selection of Peace and ...

I once asked a child to give a Sunday sermon—on the book of Job.

Jason Mott’s wildly inventive novel depicts two Black American writers, an ocean apart. It’s up to the reader to decide how ...

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Flight.” ...

The anti-ICE and “Christ in the rubble” nativity scenes are also theologically profound—and fully in keeping with the best ...

He argues that the source of America’s gun violence is a lack of meaningful laws regulating guns, owing overwhelmingly to the ...

Christmas 2019We travel this route across desert searchingSouls weighed down by horror and despair.Artificial trees shimmer.

The National Ghost Ranch Foundation and the Presbyterian Foundation jointly announced plans to preserve the landscapes and ...

Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and Democratic state senator in Iowa, has beaten Republican candidates in three ...

At first glance, the nativity scene outside Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, has all the traditional hallmarks: Mary ...

Why does a Mozart opera make me weepBut I don’t cry at any other one?Herr Wagner’s thunderbolts put me to sleep.Rossini’s ...