We need to spend these weeks of Lent living out those three pillars of the season: prayer, fasting, almsgiving. The world is ...

READING urgently needs an overnight shelter to help people who have nowhere to live – and it needs to open soon before another tragedy occurs.

Faith Karimi walked into a tiny library in Monowi, Nebraska, and froze. There, in a cardboard box, was a touchstone from her ...

So what are we doing on a mountaintop in the early days of Lent? Just last week, we were with Jesus in the desert, as he ...

READING urgently needs an overnight shelter to help people who have nowhere to live – and it needs to open soon before another tragedy occurs.

Early in my freshman year of college, a speeding car struck my twin brother, Jim, on a street near our campus. These were pre-cellphone days, but I happened to be in my dorm room when the call came in ...

Discover Adeline Wong's journey after learning her father was executed for drug trafficking, and how she now helps others affected by crime. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Today, a devotional by Jaccob Slavin, Team USA men's Olympic hockey team and alternate captain and defenseman for the Carolina Hurricanes ...

The best books on writing tend to be well, if not beautifully, written. But I have found that great books about writing great fiction — such as those by Eudora Welty and E Lily Yu — often contain ...

I can’t claim to have lived all my life by Bacon’s dictum: “Some books are to be tasted, some swallowed, and some chewed and digested,” for I was in the university before I learned it; but by some ...

The Church continues to treat gay people as second-class citizens – how do they get away with it? - COMMENT: Recently bishops ...

American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians, according to new Gallup polling, after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis.