Chronicling the life lessons imparted by his parents through the lens of faith and biblical principles, author Robert K. Auten Jr. has released his new book, "Lessons from My Father and Mother: The ...

Twelve hours after his wife shot her four children and herself, Cliff Harshman sat in a hospital waiting room. “I sat and ...

The Ten Commandments recall the Exodus. You are part of an extended family, the Israelites. It began with Abraham, from ...

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He claimed that if anybody tried to do anything, he would afflict the person with madness or jail the person. He must have ...

William Cowper’s The Task, written in 1785, echoes today’s anxieties with eerie precision — war, oppression, the weight of the world. Can poetry offer solace in chaotic times? A journey through memory ...

To know him is to feel the weight of a difficult past, a story that, although painful, is part of the experience that allowed ...

Zora Neale Hurston's work didn't have the literary appreciation it now has until more than 15 years after her death in 1960.

Surveillance footage, according to BSO, showed Mary Gingles frantically seeking help as Nathan Gingles chased her with a gun ...

"One of the things that we talked about was amusement parks in New Jersey - very different than what I anticipated we'd be talking about,'' Sculimbrene told Judge N. William Delker in Hillsborough ...

In January, a 15-year-old boy was rescued from a southern Utah trail, but left his backpack behind. Weeks later, a father and ...

Ziz,” appears to be the leader of a strange group connected to multiple murders, who called themselves “Zizians.” She has ...