By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The Bible says, in the beginning the Earth was wild and empty. In Hebrew it is called Tohuwabohu, utter chaos. So God turned ...

For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

A book of verse, professedly written in the sonnet genre, may appear as restrictive and constraining as to its scope and expanse but like the Urdu ghazal may contain a kaleidoscope of subjects, ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion ...

Indeed, according to the Council the holy virgin is the Mother of God since she begot according to the flesh the Word of God made flesh ... course of her life on earth, was taken up in body ...

The Jewish rom-com is finally joining the Criterion Collection, and according to Irving, “Peter and I have thought of sequels.” ...

Jesus said this end-times supernatural “power and great glory” will be evident to all, and “all of the tribes of the earth ...

Spending time in nature is therapeutic. After hours of scrolling through feeds and drowning in notifications, stepping ...

First, a bit of geological background info: The jade here was formed more than 500 million years ago deep within the Earth’s crust ... the Jomon period. People made tools, beads, pendants ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...