As the morning sun of Central Texas burned off the lingering crispness of a recent autumnal Sunday, Valid Ebadfardzadeh, an older man with a long white beard who was dressed in a stark white cotton ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Hidden for centuries in the sands of Egypt, the Gnostic Gospels have been seen as dangerous heresy. But were they really ...

He focuses on Taylor’s concepts of the “social imaginary,” the “immanent frame,” and the “buffered self,” showing how these terms capture a tendency to focus exclusively on the present moment and the ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

The elusive genius behind classics like "Brown Sugar" and "Voodoo" transformed R&B and inspired a generation of artists with his sound, style, and spirit. D’Angelo, born Michael Eugene Archer, has ...

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 11, 2025. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images He named himself after Pope Leo XIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, and was ...

He named himself after Pope Leo XIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, and was known as “The Pope of the Workers,” making it his mission to confront the ruthless laissez-faire economics ...

Tyler Perry has two more projects lined up for Netflix: The Gospel of Christmas and Tis So Sweet. Filming is due to get underway on the projects soon at Tyler Perry’s Atlanta-based production, Tyler ...