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The practitioner of prayer who utilizes the psalms soon recognizes that God apparently appreciates the full range of human ...

At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...

James Keane's book Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes highlights "50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands" whose ...

It is not a “big” or “important” work, thank God: plot and meaning are compact like a kernel; characters are realised to the ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

But democracy is, at its core, fundamentally an ethical relationship. Even in its most elementary form, elections, democracy ...

Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an ...

Meet the buzzy folk-pop songwriter, plus a dancey noise band, a dexterous Dominican M.C., a new generation of SoundCloud ...