In the 1970s, with endurance and diplomacy, lawmaker Albert Edwards pushed Texas to recognize slavery’s end. In the summer of 1865, the good news of freedom finally came to more than 250,000 slaves in ...

When Ed and his brother formed We The Kingdom in 2018, Franni was 20 years old, and her family was still dealing with the ...

Brigham Young heard about California’s gold discoveries and demanded that Brannan send the Mormon church $20,000 in the ...

So far, what is known is that the proposal would divert funds from a Health and Human Services Department program created ...

Social media is bad for you. It’s bad for the world, for politics, for young people. In fact, it’s bad for everybody, at every level, and no platform is exempt: not Facebook, not X, not Instagram or ...

On a misty November morning, I could hear piet-my-vrou (red chested cuckoos) calling as I walked through the hydrangea garden and into the neat white house just outside Pietermaritzburg in ...

Earlier this summer, Nehad Hasan decided to travel from his home in Lebanon to Syria for a family vacation. He wanted his children to meet extended family and to see their ancestral homeland of Afrin, ...

When we come to savor the reality that God created the world and everything in it—particularly in this way—we are invited to ...

Evangelicals joined the Church of England, Catholics, and disability groups to oppose the bill targeting the terminally ill.

Sometimes churches with identical doctrinal statements, leadership structures, and even worship styles give off very different—and hard-to-describe—vibes. And often that difference is based on the ...

“Harm reduction,” they warbled. “Need anything?” All the soundtrack missed was jingly music like an ice cream truck, calling ...

When James Kilgo published Deep Enough for Ivorybills in 1988, reviewers compared it to Annie Dillard’s 1974 nature memoir ...