In a meditation on displacement and survival, Baroudi traces what it means to live as a member of the Lebanese diaspora.

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We saw how the saga of the man who would eclipse the Pen-Master began not in southern political arenas, but in the misty highlands of Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Franz Rosenzweig started his most provocative work of philosophy in the trenches of World War I.

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

President Donald Trump last fall promised new legal guidance from the U.S. Department of Education that would ensure “total protection” for the right to pray in public schools. That guidance is now ...

Every morning, for 1,005 days and counting, I have spent at least a half-hour praying with the popular Catholic prayer app Hallow — Rosaries, chaplets, Lenten and Advent devotions, lectio divina ...

It was when she got to San Diego, of all places, that Elizabeth Gilbert realized everything had changed. She had left home as the author of a reasonably successful, year-old memoir titled “Eat, Pray, ...

A Reflection for Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time “If only my people would hear me.” I am struck by the tone of pleading in today’s responsorial psalm, in which God laments that his people do ...

The frontier resilience of a small Wisconsin settler town is steadily overpowered by a deadly epidemic in Dara Van Dusen's tough, taut debut. A native New Yorker now based in Norway, Van Dusen duly ...

Set in 1870 Wisconsin, Dara Van Dusen's Berlin-bowing first feature is a revisionist Western based on Stewart O'Nan's novella. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic You wait eons for a great ...