Sarah Smarsh brings her sharp reporting skills to her family’s history of rural poverty.

Church!” says my toddler, pushed up against            the counter on a chair            so she can help mix the muffins I’d meant for our cancelled vacation: morning glory. Named for a living thing ...

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A new anthology edited by US poet laureate Ada Limón invites us into the natural world.

Imagine a door. Now, remove the attachments— the hinges and knobs—extract the word wooden like a splinter from your heel, and there you have it: wide open, all yours. Pretend you’re Huck Finn fleeing ...

On April 4, 1968, hours before his assassination, from room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. phoned the office at Ebenezer Baptist Church back home in Atlanta. It was a ...

Many lawmakers want to see the commandments displayed in public schools. Are they also interested in the Hebrew Bible’s ...

Mark R. Glanville works as director of the Centre for Missional Leadership at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His latest book is Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in ...