Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

For example, Psalm 148 is about all the elements of creation praising God — the sky, the stars ... In the coda, which ...

At Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled deep in the Cascades, I asked my students to consider their vocation in ...

Each of us is crafted as God’s unique masterpiece, designed to share our extraordinary gifts with the world.

The poems speak not only in the voice of Helen, but also in the voices of a chorus of “the Spartan women” gossiping about Helen and even in the voice of a god who may be the inseminating swan ...

Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...

Genesis 1 does not treat the creation of the male followed by the creation of the female. God creates humanity, “male and female he created them.” If you pay close attention to the relevant ...