Shamshad Abdullaev’s very name was a confluence of cultures. A Persian first name (“a pine-like tree”), an Arabic last name (“A servant of God”), and a Slavic “ev” ending that simply means “of”. This ...

Pope Francis released his fourth encyclical, "'Dilexit nos' ('He loved us'): on the Human and Divine Love of the Heart of ...

Autumn in Ohio. Those three words conjurer colorful images of country roads, woodland trails and gathering around the ...

Tank and the Bangas has continuously redefined the line between music, poetry, and New Orleans sound. Their album “The Heart, ...

At a Vatican news conference presenting the encyclical, an archbishop said that Dilexit Nos is the "key" to ...

Family and friends said their final goodbyes to a beloved Sheffield man, laid to rest next to the brother he adored.

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

“If we fail to appreciate the specificity of the heart, we miss the messages that the mind alone cannot communicate; we miss ...

Santa Cruz, California, poet and author Nancy Miller Gomez will be featured during Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective ...

In order to become one of Jesus' friends, it is necessary to receive Christ as your Lord and Savior through faith. "Yet to ...