Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

When scholars traced the Bible’s earliest stories back through history, they found striking parallels in Egyptian ...

What is the oldest Bible in the world? You might think of some dusty old tome secreted away in a vault, but the answer itself is rather surprising. It doesn’t really come as a shock to know that the ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

The Bible is already the most translated book ever—it is available in full in more than 750 languages—but they would like to see it in each of the world’s roughly 7,000 living tongues. To achieve this ...

Despite their seemingly secular modern-day iteration — featuring wine, chocolate or other products — Advent calendars ...

In May, I traveled to England to interview, film and photograph for a documentary and articles marking Karl G. Maeser and ...

Human rights groups say the world must pay more attention to the assault on one of Africa’s oldest Christian communities.

After a quarter century, the Yaddo president Elaina Richardson will step down, having made her mark on the storied arts ...

And then there’s today’s announcement of the It hue for 2026: white.

Every season, time comes in the Alps for winter to show its true self. The first tracks draw quiet lines into fresh snow, and ...

The Second Vatican Council, which after three years of dialogue and document drafting closed on Dec. 8, 1965, changed the face of the church, and opened it to the modern world. The counc ...