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 ...

The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress Geographer McDonald debuts with a sweeping reappraisal of the notion of historical progress. He examines frequently cited evidence of ...

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 ...

The UNION GOSPEL PRESS BUILDING, located at Jefferson Avenue and West 7th Street in TREMONT, is actually a 175,000-square-foot complex composed of fifteen interconnected buildings and encompassing ...

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 ...

A new book argues that the mother of Jesus was a powerhouse in her own right. Madonna and Child, c.1485 (oil on wood) by Giovanni Bellini, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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