This Sunday’s Gospel reading offers us the perfect lesson for this second week of Advent. John the Baptist is preaching along the Jordan River, and people from all over Judea are coming to hear him.

If you’ve ever played peekaboo with your little one, you’ve helped them work on object permanence. Your baby is learning that people and objects exist even when they can’t see or hear them. Object ...

Repentance is ultimately the goal that we all seek. All sane people are conscious of their numerous sins, and those who believe in Allah and His Messenger recognize that they will be held accountable ...

My grandmother has a lipstick she’s been using for thirty years. The younger me used to watch, fascinated and a little perplexed, as she pulled the gold case out of her vintage Chanel handbag and ...

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of ...

Israel's pre-dawn attack on Iran was one of the biggest and most complex air assaults the country has ever conducted. Dozens of aircraft, including Western-made fifth-generation F-35 stealth jets as ...

The Binding of Isaac feels like this weird remnant of my younger years. It was already a hit upon its original release in 2011, but found a new audience with the 2014 upgrade to The Binding of Isaac: ...

The Israeli military cited "months of continuous attacks" from Iran as the reason for the strikes, particularly referencing attacks from Iranian proxies since October 7, 2023. Israel vowed retaliation ...

It is hard to look at the world today and not feel we need a day of repentance and atonement. “Justice, Justice you shall pursue.” We have fallen so short of that politically, socially and ...

It seems apt that on the day in July on which I go to Sir Michael Craig-Martin’s studio near Old Street, in north-ish, central-ish London, the big talk of the day is about an umbrella. OK, it’s not ...

Denzel Washington executive produces a powerful adaptation of a major American play, directed by one son (Malcolm) and starring another (John David). In August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson” — ...

In his keynote speech at the National Eucharistic Congress Thursday evening “revival session,” Father Mike Schmitz, host of the popular “Bible in a Year” podcast, used a word that one doesn’t hear ...