As Shaylynn Bird danced across the arena under the hot midwestern summer sun, the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara and Oglala Lakota woman began to feel off.Bird, who once won a 76-song iron woman competition ...

Open heartsI read Peter Marty’s column about Eden Murphy, a teenager born with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with an ache in ...

But often it’s through unexpected juxtapositions that Monteiro evokes life’s mysteries. So, for instance, the poem “Solomon ...

At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm ...

For years, conservative legal groups have argued that an IRS rule barring churches from endorsing candidates was ...

A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for a century of culture wars.

McKenzie Watson-Fore is a writer, an artist, and executive editor of sneaker wave magazine. From theological reflections to ...

Richard Price’s latest novel follows four characters, each affected by the collapse of a tenement building in ...

For our brother LouWe always knew we would lose you.The youngest child in a gaggle of cousins,at two you wandered down the beach,I am the Boss embossed on the bottomof your toddler-size bathing ...

People—not everyone—but some—the onesAttuned at times to deep realities—Monks, artists, children—though unversed in war—Anywhere in the world—Hiroshima,Of course—in places far away as well—Must have ...

Michael A. Smith, a North Carolina resident, teaches history, ethics, and academic research and writing for several colleges and is author of a recent book on ...