For the Christian reader, Reece’s poems trail with verses from the epistles ... It would change the course of church and state.

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

Aleena, 29, is well known in the world of Malayalam poetry—her award-winning book, Silk Route, was published in 2021—but ...

Washam has been posting inspirational, provocative, and amusing messages outside the church founded by Roger ... She draws on Scripture and poetry when coming up with the ideas for the sign.

Sometimes they’re the only sign of life amid our solemn boringness.

Song of Songs is a mosaic of love poems which has a ... as the people of Israel. Early Christian interpreters understood the Groom as Jesus and the Bride as the Church. Both traditions have ...

How did the custom get started? Christians see gift giving as a symbolic homage to the Three Wise Men's tributes to the baby Jesus. In the New Testament, the Magi are described as honoring the ...

By Juliette Bolle-Leon On March 26, Fountain Street Church held a commemoration in honor of Martin Luther King’s life work of ...

It’s painting, music, dance – poetry in motion. It’s when the squiggly lines of ... In effortless action we can move in currents greater than ourselves. In my Christian tradition divine fluidity is ...

A healthy church isn’t built on programs or personalities—it’s built on four loves that keep Jesus at the center and the ...

This episode was first broadcast in 2023 as part of the Church Times Poetry Podcast for Lent series. “Paternoster” is published in Jen Hadfield’s collection Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), which ...