In early 2012, local author Wayne-Daniel Berard, was running with gusto through the busy poetry community when he met a fellow poet and Simmons College professor specializing in sustainability and ...

RICHMOND, Va., June 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After working all day, author Rufus Johnson could not shut his mind down as his memories from childhood kept coming back when he tried to rest. His ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks called Christian Wiman's "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer" the "best modern book on belief." Here Wiman shares how people of faith can begin ...

CLEVELAND _ Sitting in the living room of her bright blue house on the city’s East Side, Gale Henderson holds up two photographs of herself: One shows a smiling child about 3 years old, the other a ...

Poetry is essentially a spiritual art. It can resonate verse to a degree of a chant, or a prayer; it can also deepen our emulation to the universe, to our world itself, to nature, to other people and ...

Charleston, SC, April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As more and more people move away from religion in favor of spirituality, author Mustafa Cinar presents a poetry book to foster spiritual growth.

Background: Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, she graduated from the University of Rochester and Temple University School of Law. She spent most of her legal career in the state attorney general's ...

The statues and crucifixes in our churches this week will be draped with purple sheets. The sparest days of Lent, the church's annual retreat, are upon us. The sight of these hooded saints feels ...

These four come immediately to mind. But another favorite of the Jesuits, I have learned, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver, 80 this year, who is of no declared religion, but whose poems are ...

Mehr 8 in the Iranian calendar is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the prominent Iranian poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi who needs no introduction when it comes to ...