For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

Hanks — a journalist, and yes, also the daughter of Tom — recalls driving the highway 10 across the southwest as she tries to make sense of her unstable upbringing and the life and death of ...

In “Miracles and Wonder,” the author explores what motivated people to record the details that define the life of Jesus. In ‘Searches,’ Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write ...

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Like many in America, Todd Martens grew up with parents who devoted the bulk of their vacation time to Disney’s theme parks. He now understands them as places to make sense of the world rather ...

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