What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred?

By J. D. Biersdorfer Where’s Johnny? The Biography of a TV Host Whose Life Was a Closed Book. Johnny Carson dominated late-night television for decades, but closely guarded his privacy.

Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based ...

By A.O. Scott John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of the greatest pieces of music ever created.

(RNS) — On so many fundamental issues, Kamala Harris represents and advocates for a better and more inclusive America for the 21st century, and not for a return to nativism, a politics of ...

4 1 Adam [1] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. [2] She said, "With the help of the Lord I have brought forth [3] a man." 2 Later she gave birth to his brother ...

Pope Francis made waves in September when he expelled 10 members of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae — including Father Cardó ...

You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me." But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth. He did it ...

Queer Chinese American writer Geoffrey Mak takes the personal essay to new, and sometimes unsettling, heights, in his book ...

Katharine Spurrier dives into the stunning selection of photographs by Carlos Muñoz-Yagüe in this new book which takes us behind the scenes of iconic designer, Yves Saint Laurent. Alexander ...

Daniel Penny returned to a Manhattan courthouse this morning for opening statements in his manslaughter trial for the death of Jordan Neely, an erratic homeless man he placed in a chokehold during ...

The composition of the state’s hand-picked curriculum advisory board raises questions about whether panelists were inclined ...