Beowulf can be read as a Christian allegory about good and evil. The chronicler-poets, who were Christian monks, portrayed Beowulf as the champion of goodness (a mighty, muscular Christ figure) while ...

India produces poetry in 24 languages every year. The Sahitya Akademi awarded eight poets in 2025 alone. The world still only ...

I inherited many books from my older brothers—esoteric books from the 1970s on running and weightlifting, and Pietro di Donato’s classic novel Christ in ...

Following his 2020 foray into middle grade fiction, 'The Silver Arrow,' novelist Lev Grossman returns to the realm of children’s literature with his first picture book, 'The God of Sleep,' illustrated ...

When we use ideas drawn from our knowledge of finite beings and try to apply them to God, who is infinite, our ideas are like blind lions.

Joshua Bennett’s two new collections, “We” and “The People Can Fly,” take different paths to the same destination.

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 ...

Roughly 80 years ago, Christian novelist Jan Karon, creator of the beloved 15-volume Mitford Years series, stood in front of a mirror and told herself she would be a writer. Rough ...

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

The nation’s official motto, “In God we trust,” has appeared on coins since the Civil War. The Pledge of Allegiance promises ...

Geneticists are the first to admit that genes don't explain everything, and that the most important features of human behavior represent a complex interplay among many genes and the environment.