Sloan creates a narrative with a past and a future, some of it mysterious, some of it surreal, some of it funny.

Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) - head of the Jewish community in Frankfurt, Germany for over 35 years - was a prolific ...

Occasionally they remember to call him by his new name, Pope Leo XIV, but it’s unfamiliar to their tongue. One of the guests ...

Medieval women’s ideas about heaven were inspired by the visions and sufferings they experienced, says Hetta Howes ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Influencer Kanchan Kumari was murdered in Bathinda in June 2025. Her death, justified by radical Nihangs, has sparked outrage ...

The recent conclave and election of a new Pope drew the world’s attention to the papacy, the oldest, continuously existing, “as well as arguably the most ...

India halts auction of sacred Buddha relics unearthed at Piprahwa in 1898. Scholars demand repatriation over colonial legacy.

Quality information is even more important now in an age of AI slop where the information ecosystem is awash in misleading images and strange blah words that sound like they mean something but don’t ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

Juneteenth has only been a federal holiday since 2021.  That recognition has caused some of our black brothers and sisters to ...

A mono-ethnic society allows culture to predominate fully. “Culture” is always ill-defined, but basically means a set of ...