In a significant departure, Sawai Chinnawong grounds his artistry in his own culture. When Sawai Chinnawong, 63, first committed his life to Christ in college in 1983, the artist tried painting Bible ...

Four or five Sundays in 2005, his own atheism notwithstanding, Dale McGowan took his family into the neo-Gothic grandeur of St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis on a kind of skeptic’s field ...

If American politics were a TV show, it would by now have jumped the shark. Then again, American politics is a sort of TV show, considering its surreal plot lines, its cast of kooky narcissists, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

(RNS) — Forbidden images, illuminated manuscripts and even maps testify to the creativity humans bring to the project of making the transcendent tangible. (RNS) — From 12-foot-tall stained-glass ...

Figure 1: Layout of upper and lower Jewish catacombs in Villa Torlonia in Rome. Each loculus was sealed by a small wall of rubble and bricks that was covered in a smooth layer of lime. Pieces of ...

When Christian Bale first talked with director Ridley Scott about playing the role of Moses in Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” he went home and rented a movie to get him in the right mood. It wasn’t ...