Several years ago, I started walking three miles each morning with my English lab, no matter the weather. There is something good about closing the gap between oneself and the environment—getting ...

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In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing ...

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

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The brutal sectarian nature of the Kingsmills Massacre in south Armagh 50 years ago tomorrow led to an exodus of ...

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Uninhabited Baker Island is among the last to see the new year, as 2026 takes 26 hours to roll across the globe.

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is more difficult than it seems.