Let’s begin our discussion of faith and fiction by playing devil’s advocate, or, at least, by giving the devil his due. It cannot be denied that the devil has had great success in convincing many ...

Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims with "to the Muslim world, we seek ...

Deborah Johnson is not your typical Mississippi book author. For one thing, she is an African-American Catholic. There are few Catholics in most of Mississippi. For another, she came to Mississippi ...

The popular understanding of science has changed considerably over the past few hundred years. Properly understood, in the broadest etymological sense, science is merely knowing. Thus the omni-science ...

A study published this month in the journal Cognitive Science and reported by the Huffington Post shows that young children exposed to religion find it more difficult to differentiate between fact and ...

One of the most rewarding things about caring for older parents is to have opportunities to learn about the past, even when the present is rather complicated. The time it takes to do caregiving, and ...

When I was 8 years old, my father took off. He was a damaged, selfish man, but he had good taste in literature. He left a treasure in our basement, a box of science fiction and fantasy including Ray ...

As we approach the celebration of the Resurrection, we are now - and will always be - bombarded with claims of uncertainty about our Christ. The accusations and assaults on our faith are nothing new.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — A man with a passion in financial ...

TORONTO — Valerie Sayers is a Catholic writer with a keen appreciation of the grand style of renowned novelists in the school of William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor and even Walker ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information From its inception in prohibition, through depression and war, in prosperity and peace, the Virginia Quarterly Review has been a ...

In books as in life, grandparents usually belong to the supporting cast, adored but cheerfully taken for granted. Yet a complex relationship lies behind the Hallmark card patronization. Grandparents ...