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When it comes to giving gifts, it's hard to go wrong with words. Here are some of the wordy gifts we'll be giving this Christmas. Most of the books I [...]

MY MOM WAS A NIGHT OWL who would stay up for hours after my dad had fallen asleep in his recliner and my older sister and I were in our [...]

MY SOCIAL CIRCLE of lapsed Catholics, exvangelicals, and other 'deconstructing' Christians may have lost the narrative threads we followed for much of our lives, but we can rattle off our [...]

THE RACE TO CREATE THE BEST artificial intelligence chatbot is on. At the time of writing, Google is unveiling its new chatbot, Bard, to 10,000 testers. The technology was rushed [...]

Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives By Anne Perez Fortress What exactly does it mean to identify oneself as a Zionist or to call someone else one? It's a more complicated [...]

The Advent calendar is one of the few traditions from my Catholic childhood that really took root in my own children's lives. The Jesse Tree, which I had loved in [...]

Grave By Allison C. Meier (Bloomsbury Academic) A New York cemetery tour guide and former senior editor of the popular travel site Atlas Obscura, Allison Meier has written what feels [...]

Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery By Margot Douaihy (Gillian Flynn Books) Margot Douaihy's New Orleans is a fever dream. Her protagonist is a queer, punk nun who is all [...]

Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World and How to Repair It All by Lisa Sharon Harper Brazos Press, 256 pp., $24.99 When Lisa Sharon Harper embarked on [...]

The most brilliant and chilling novel I have read in a very long time is The Memory Monster, by Israeli author Yishai Sarid. The book is written as a report [...]

About a mile off 1-74 in southeast Indiana between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, nestled among rolling green fields populated by a few contented grazing cows and red barns suitable for postcards, [...]

At 32, novice Maria Anna Dela Paz is the youngest sister in her congregation, the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, by about 20 years. She was drawn to the [...]

Filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson seems to think so. But what about the singer's deep faith? WHEN RECORD EXECUTIVES urged Sinead O'Connor to grow her hair long and wear more feminine clothing, [...]

'You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you,' writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief [...]

July 24, 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Hosea 1:2-10 'EVERY DAY some woman somewhere is being called a whore,' Wil Gafney wrote in 2018, explaining why she preaches on biblical [...]

The article focuses on the author's personal connection to horror movies and how they serve as a therapeutic outlet for her, allowing her to process trauma and find a sense of satisfaction and relief through the narratives of mothers protecting their children in these films. The author also reflects on her mother's superstitions and the religious beliefs that surrounded her mother's illness and death, highlighting the complex relationship between religion and horror in her life.