For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

As I stumble into my later years, I seem to know less and less. And I find myself – often in desperation – pulling what I think of as my childhood rabbit out of its hat. That is to say, when the conve ...

The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Poetry, art, religion are precious things,” wrote John Dewey (1859–1952), a Vermont native and influential American ...

In 'Cosmic Connections,' Charles Taylor focuses on how art, and poetry in particular, both expresses and responds to the unique human experience of “being modern.” ...

Many people choose to give up something during this season as an exercise in self-denial. Might we not instead ask God what ...

In her new book, "I Am Maria," the child of the Kennedy family, broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and – after the end of her marriage – a woman in search of herself offers an ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

The latest from Columbia poet Gabriel Fried explores thin places between expressions of gender, between faith and doubt.

In February, we asked our audience: What does your spiritual practice look ... Here is a sampling of where our readers find spiritual comfort, from poetry to gardening to gazing out into the ocean.

“We were never created to make so many minute decisions so quickly,” says Eddie LaRow, acquisitions editor at Baker, which will publish God, What Do I Do? A Bible Study on Judges 1-5 About ...