To the uninitiated, the words abstinence and divestment may connote a sense of deprivation or sacrifice. When applied to a ...

It is to the "form," it may be presumed, and not to the substance of the Presbyterian Prayer Book that the objectors will confine their objections. But, in fact, all public worship, so far as it ...

This oversized edition also comes with a slipcover jacket, two removable fold-out maps created by J.R.R's son Christopher Tolkien, and pages from the Book of Mazarbul. Since this deal is part of ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

To test the tomes, scientists examined seven skin bindings and conducted a genetic probe into nine more books, according to the study. They found some of the animal-skin DNA belonged to harp seal ...

The awesome amazingness of the transformation that occurs because of his saving grace can be found in this assurance of forgiveness from the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship: “Anyone who is ...

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA), organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), has unveiled the shortlists for its 19th edition ... Urbanistic Samarra: A Study of Architecture ...

The history of that commitment has now been documented in a just-released 132-page volume, “200 Years of First Presbyterian Church: Honoring Our Past, Building Our Legacy.” The book will be pa ...

and “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” continues that trend by unpacking the recent history of bioethics through the story of the director’s own body. It’s a story that Lane naturally tells ...

Everything was coming up roses in Portland, Oregon, last month, a week before the annual Rose Parade, especially for leaders of the United Presbyterian ... the Book of Confessions, and the Book ...

One day a timeworn book, dog-eared and foxed, arrived in my isolation unit. It was James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, sent from school by my brilliant young ...