By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

After God shuts them in, the flood begins, with rain for 40 days and 40 nights. This is the first time the Bible will introduce the significance of the number 40 — including the 40-day flood, 40 years ...

As the second account of creation in Genesis concludes, the narrator leaves us with a striking detail: “The man and his wife ...

Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

Songwriters representing all five of the compositions nominated for best original song at the 2025 Academy Awards got together virtually for a Songwriters Hall of Fame discussion that is premiering ...

Poet Kenneth Steven writes on Raasay, an island close to Skye once home to the great Gaelic bard Sorley MacLean. Kenneth describes the history of this 'fiercely traditional island', with its ...

Becoming a Godly man starts with reading Ephesians 5. It’s in Ephesians 5:1 that we are told by Paul to “Follow God’s example in everything we do, because we are his dear children.” ...

D ays before her 100th birthday on Feb. 10, Evelyn Baer, lifelong Prior Lake resident, was popping open a beer around 4 p.m. She had the bottle in one hand and a cheese sandwich in the other, with ...

They were inspired by poems, including the 1899 ... him about his reasons for covering ‘The Man Who Sold the World’” and that “it was a good straight forward rendition and sounded ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...