Sarah Smarsh brings her sharp reporting skills to her family’s history of rural poverty.

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday that the bishops would not seek to renew agreements with the federal ...

Many lawmakers want to see the commandments displayed in public schools. Are they also interested in the Hebrew Bible’s ...

I had all of this in mind as I watched footage of the recent abduction of Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk.

Sometimes they’re the only sign of life amid our solemn boringness.

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...

Our true and permanent identity is something that hasn’t yet fully come about. Jesus’ transfiguration also reveals his true ...

In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ...

Is it possible to have real, authentic relationships across political party lines? In his third book, Jedidiah Jenkins explores this question by taking readers on a road trip with his mother. Jenkins ...