Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes ...
"The Prophets," by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 400 pages, $27) In his debut novel, “The Prophets,” Robert Jones Jr. ambitiously reimagines a past in the antebellum American South and ...
Whether sad, fierce or downright murderous, these clairvoyant figures have enthralled writers from Sophocles to Charlotte Brontë and Hilary Mantel At the end of his prophetic journey through hell, ...
Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister is well-known to NCR readers. One of the most influential voices in American Catholicism, she is the author of more than 50 books and a regular contributor to NCR. A ...
An artistic representation of Jesus Christ at the Cathedral of Cefalù, in Italy, c 1130. | Andreas Wahra / CC BY-SA 3.0 In The Second Book of Prophets, Malayalam writer Benyamin employs his formidable ...
MANASSAS, Va., Oct. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After studying Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet,” author and addiction and trauma specialist Kevin MacNevin Clark was inspired to write a modern version of ...
In 1916, Alfred A. Knopf, then 23 and a newcomer to the book-publishing business, was introduced to a Lebanese artist-poet in a Greenwich Village cafe. Knopf had never heard of Kahlil Gibran, but his ...
THE UNCHARTED WAY-Winston Churchill-Dorrance ($2). In the 23 years since U. S. Novelist Winston Churchill (The Crisis, Richard Carvel) last published a book, he has kept much to himself. He lived ...
Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...