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It happened quickly, so quickly that you’d think it was impossible to retain the image. The Ohio Turnpike in October 2024, 5:30 a.m. and pitch-black, the road straight and...

The Nativity of our Lord—born an infant, laid in a manger. It’s an utterly strange story: The Creator of all things takes the flesh of and lives as a...

This poem was written by St. Francis of Assisi, and translated by Dana Gioia. Most high, all powerful, and most good Lord,Yours are the praises, glory, honor, blessings.Only to...

The leather binding, torn and askew,is barely joined by brittle pieces of Scotch tape.  And the names and streets, long since fled to a digital cloud of witnesses, are more like...

Remorseless sun     stunts the dew Glistening towers     of tainted glassignite and blister     in blood-yellow lightrecalling the tallest     of crumbling tombsas humbler...

Alice Roberts is a familiar face in British media. A skilled archaeologist, she has for years hosted the television show Digging for Britain . . .

Was the First Gulf War a mistake? The histor­ian Paul Schroeder thought the answer was yes...

John Fisher, the renowned Bishop of Rochester, is known to history chiefly for having been put to death by King ­Henry VIII...

Recently I checked into a pleasant, fairly sterile Marriott in Shoreditch ahead of my London debut as a playwright...

This essay was delivered as the 38th Annual Erasmus Lecture. The circumstances of my life have been such that I have moved, since adolescence, in a ­borderland between languages....

The problem with the evangelical elite is that there isn’t one. All too few evangelical Christians hold senior positions in the ­culture-shap­ing domains of American ­society. Evangelicals don’t run...

A physician declares his dying patient—a seven-pound baby boy—“dangerous as dynamite,” a “menace to society.” A routine medical procedure could save the boy’s life, but he was born deformed....

Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the seventeenth century, once said that Caravaggio had come into the world to destroy painting. ­Poussin’s concept of beauty led him to...

Something like a civil war is unfolding within the American conservative movement. It is not merely a dispute about policy agendas, foreign alliances, or the boundaries of political discourse....

In these early days of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has made one thing clear: The responsible use of AI will be one of his central themes. It has...