The Pharisees saw Jesus as an enemy because his words went against their strict interpretations of the law, interpretations ...

The religious folks called the Pharisees in the time of Jesus were offended ... But Jesus was often eating and drinking with corrupt tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. He met people where ...

The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Drawing on mysticism and the new language of science, a generation of charismatic performers and con artists became ...

St. Gregory Palamas lived in Greece in the 14th century. The Byzantine Emperor himself helped raise and educate St. Gregory, but the saint left the court to become a humble ...

The nominal subject was the Sierra Club leader David Brower, but McPhee allowed a mining expert named Charles Park to share ...

The friends—Amina, Lisa, and Alba—met when they studied together in England. Amina now has a one-year-old, and this is the ...

It just happens that they leave different sets of viewers rapt and enraged. No Other Land — directed by a quartet that includes the Palestinian West Bank residents Hamdan Ballal and Basel Adra ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

Basel Adra, from left, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham, winners of the best documentary feature film for No Other Land, pose in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in ...

UPDATE: Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” has been freed, according to a social media post from co-director Yuval Abraham. “After being ...