From Greek reason and Abrahamic faith to Buddhist insight and modern psychology, this article posits that human transformation, empathy, and meaning are forged not in avoiding pain, but in deeply ...

Book criticism often encourages speed: verdicts delivered briskly, ideas reduced to angles, art pressed into service of an argument. The two books under review here resist that pressure.

Benjamin ben Yonah of Tudela (c. 1130–1173), a learned merchant from Navarre in northern Spain, embarked on an extraordinary ...

He leant into art first at home, then went on to learn painting at Moscow’s Surikov Art Institute. By 1942, with the Second ...

"We began this week with a strong snowstorm reminding us we are still in the heart of winter. Not a time to think about trees budding, but the Jewish calendar ...

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and ...

White Christian nationalism is widely seen as a partisan movement that only emerged in recent years. But the ideology is as ...

In this new book entitled Life Goes On: Evidence for Reincarnation That Makes Sense to Christians and Open-Minded Skeptics, ...

Three hundred years after Christ, in the middle of a grappling Roman Empire, a small group of men and women left their cities in search of the quiet desolation of the Egyptian desert to become the ...

Philip Yancey, one of the world’s most widely read contemporary Christian authors, has announced his retirement from writing, speaking and public ministry after confessing to a long-term extramarital ...

Few theologians have had as profound and lasting an impact on contemporary Christian thought as the German theologian, pastor, and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His legacy has been widely interpreted ...

This week, we revisit Egypt's sacred, mystical wilderness, not the desert caves where early Christian mystics meditated, but instead the birthplace of the philosophy and magic systems that inspired ...