We refer routinely to “Paul’s Letter to the Philippians” or “the Gospel of Luke,” and most Christians today assume that Paul and Luke were the authors of these works. Countless paintings throughout ...

Emily Conroy-Krutz chronicles the complex relationship between Protestant missionaries and the US Foreign Service in the ...

A new 223-volume Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 words presented to the Library of Congress last ...

Three United Methodists were killed in clashes between members of the United Methodist Church of Nigeria and the conservative ...

At Christmas, the least grown-up parts of us have free rein.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Seed.” The Buechner Narrative Writing Project honors the life and legacy of ...

A white bat flies into the mango tree. Erratic, it darts through wet leaves and disappears. We are left looking at dangling fruit dancing over the pool. From the rooftop restaurant two terraces above, ...

Whether it’s knitting, dancing, or chopping onions, any activity is a spiritual one, as long as it’s done with the divine in ...

About this time, the theme of protection entered my prayer life. It went deeper than politics. I found three prayers rising, ...

Occasionally one of my children will ask me, “Am I your favorite child?” This both elicits a laugh I don’t think they were going for (and can’t be good for their confidence; I should work on that) and ...

You say in God’s Ghostwriters that your process as a historian involves reading into the gaps. You call it a form of history telling that is imaginative and not untrue. Why do you approach your ...