I loved the juxtaposition of those tunes on the radio that day. Trusting in the man from Galilee who calmed the sea provides security forever.

On July Fourth, as dawn broke over Camp Mystic, a nearly century-old Christian girls’ summer camp in central Texas, the ...

At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm ...

Matt Moseley’s day job is CEO of a communications company. His night job is author of books, including one about Hunter S. Thompson. And his “early-morning job” is open-water swimmer, which is weird ...

For readers of historical fiction, there’s no need to settle on just one place or period when journeying into the past. At ...

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

Gamal Abdel Nasser, as a young Egyptian army officer, was surrounded by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in ...

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’ Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation’s newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today ...

With the invention of the microscope at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it became possible to take a first glimpse at the previously invisible world of microscopic life. A bewildering ...

But in the 18th century, society "encouraged young people to select their marriage partners based on their romantic attachments," said the National Women's History Museum.

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