A valley student has been named the best poetry reciter in Virginia. Amelia Rylak, a senior at Grace Christian High School in ...

Lynx House was a real house first. The Lynx was a painting rescued from the dump and hung on the wall. The home was shared by friends going through the University of Massachusetts’ master’s of fine ...

Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black ...

Modulator pills transformed cystic fibrosis care. But the fight for a cure is not over — so long as research remains funded.

The Lenten path begins with prayer, as it serves as its fundamental element. Many believers encounter periods during which they find themselves unable to pray because their prayers become ineffective ...

The West is at war with fear. Today, my heart aches for the West. Despite our war against fear in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine, and now ...

If it is ‘certain that we shall not be here for long,’ as Blaise Pascal says, ‘and uncertain whether we shall be here even one hour,’ then what lies beyond death matters more than anything else.

Many readers associate Annamacharya with devotion to Lord Venkateswara. Garikapati argues that the poet’s work is more expansive than that. “He prayed to God, pleaded with God, played with God, and at ...

The Tamil landscape, for centuries, had been shaped by the self-denying, often severe, philosophies of Jainism and Buddhism.

Written during the Vietnam War and based on a poem by Yoko Ono, ‘Imagine’ became a powerful anthem for peace and his "greatest musical gift to the world." ...

Sufism, is recognized as the mystical branch of Islam, and is often called the "science of the heart." Rumi’s path, which later on became the Mevlevi Order (or Whirling Dervishes), is built on three ...