The Aug 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota saw hundreds of Minnesotans come together to support the affected...

by Mary Baker Eddy Who is thine enemy that thou shouldst love him? Is it a creature or a thing outside thine own creation?         Can...

by Mary Baker Eddy "There is immense wisdom in the old proverb, “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.” Hannah More* said,...

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was destined to be just another Viennese composer when he began composing the first of his nine symphonies. ...

Book Review:   A Great Improvisation, by Stacy Schiff Yet another trip across the Atlantic was the last thing Benjamin Franklin wanted...

Historian Jon Meacham was concerned for our democracy when in 2016 populist candidate Donald Trump was elected president, particularly...

The first thing you need to know about John Lewis is that he always wanted to be a preacher.  The second thing you need to know is that the goal of the 1960's Civil Rights movement--of which Lewis was a key player--was for African Americans to achieve equality before the law, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, and that included the right to vote.  The author of this book, Jon Meacham, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, who has produced a number of best-selling books, no

from "The New Testament: A Student's Introduction" by Stephen L. Harris (note: the editing is mine -- Rich). John's gospel was popular...

by Ken Makin, cultural commentator, The Christian Science Monitor Weekly, week of May 25, 2025 Stepping foot on Claflin University's...

Their names do not roll off the tongue with the familiarity of, say, John, Paul, George and Ringo—the Fab Four Beatles.  But in their...

John Marshall Harlan was a man of many contradictions.  He was an opponent of chattel slavery, and against Lincoln's Emancipation...

As a survivor of the Nazi holocaust, Gidon Lev should be bitter, angry and unforgiving.  But he isn't.  He's an eternal optimist, and...

Poetry is a sort of writing shorthand, that cuts through the world's grief, and reveals the divine truth that governs the universe. Or,...

There was so much that neeed to be overcome--a mountain of prejudice in the form of state-required segregation (a.k.a. Jim Crow), of...

At the outbreak of World War II, Chrysler Corporation was awarded the lucrative government contract to build U.S. Army Tanks for...

At the outbreak of World War II, Chrysler Corporation was awarded the lucrative government contract to build U.S. Army Tanks. To do so,...

You have to love a guy who can laugh at himself. You can be sure he likes people and above all enjoys life. Now imagine that someone is a...

No one would ever accuse Ben Jonson of modesty—or tact. He took life by the horns, consequences be damned. A bricklayer’s son, he rose to...