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Amazon sells books at their brick-and-mortar stores, but that's not why they want me to come.

Four years ago, the cocurators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven, visited Theophilos III, the city’s Orthodox patriarch, and solicited his...

My daughter and I were listening to the radio, when the prerecorded radio show commercial butted in to say, “We only play NEW music.”  

Philip Jenkins recommends the best recently published books in his field.

Is it possible for two 12-year-olds to retain their innocence in a place like Auschwitz?

A justice system oriented mainly toward punishing offenders can have tragic consequences.

Trump's point was about Russia and cybersecurity. Why did his (theoretical) hacker need to be fat?

Our family was "that family" in church. I'm sure most of us are familiar with what I mean by "that family." It could be the one that always comes in late, or the one with kids making weird clicking noises during times of silence, or kids who decide the aisle is ripe for a repeat performance of Usain Bolt's gold-medal effort in the 200m.

The Dakota Access pipeline poses a threat to indigenous people. Their resistance poses tough questions for all of us.

A majority of the religiously unaffiliated—the so-called nones—say they fell away from faith not because of any negative experience, but because they “stopped believing,” usually before the age of ...

Matthew L. Skinner recommends the best recently published books in his field.

Colson Whitehead has created a world as compelling—and as intolerable—as our own.

By some estimates, three quarters of Americans don't really know their next-door neighbor.

I chatted with a friend about inspiring women in the religious realm, and since he doesn’t have any experience with the world I work in, I showed him some pictures. ...

What to do with that stack of old Bibles (or that stack of old issues of the Century)?

One professor’s quest to preserve historic black gospel music earned the attention of the Smithsonian Institution....

Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Randolph Marshall Hollerith recalls visiting the Washington National Cathedral as it was being built, especially watching the stone carvers work....

As indicated by her new name, St. Teresa of Kolkata, canonized September 4 in Rome, Mother Teresa is most closely associated with India....

(The Christian Science Monitor) Akef Smeirat did something no other Christian candidate in Jordan is known to have done: he ran for of...

Other people have the things I want, and they seem fine.