As I pause at the side of the bath / And forget.” It’s not the most arresting opening, but it was the first line of poetry I ...

Revels last visited the frozen north in 2018, when it offered an imaginative fusion of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and the Finnish ...

Advent calls us to stay vigilant in the present to the ways of Jesus, for we do not know when these things will occur.

We radiate the life of Jesus to the world to the extent that we live with the conviction that we are divinely loved. Advent calls us beyond the false security of the merely virtuous person and into ...

Thus, the Torah tells the Jewish umma, and the Qur’an tells the Muslim umma, the importance of picking yourself up and going (Hajj in Arabic, Hag in Hebrew) with masses of other members of your umma, ...

What brings you happiness and is your source and cause of delight? Make your list and check it twice. The rose color is ...

Let us strive to spend more time caring for others in the truest sense and less time feeding the devil’s divisiveness, chastising those we think we disagree with.

Dante Alighieri thought he could write himself out of exile. In 1300, while serving on a governing committee in his beloved Florence, the poet was involved in a factional dispute among city leaders.

WOODROW DODSON ROSSIt is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Woodrow Dodson Ross, better known in the ...

Some of the best songs of 2025 sounded explosive, too, though a great number of catchy songs were rendered in more muted, ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses themes of Advent over time and how they can be applied today.

I come bearing good news and bad. The good news first. God has been saved. The bad news? In exchange for her salvation, God ...