One of the oldest and rarest pieces of Christian writing, a third-century mosaic declaring Jesus as a deity is to go on display to the public for the first time. Authorities in Israel have announced ...

The best books on writing tend to be well, if not beautifully, written. But I have found that great books about writing great fiction — such as those by Eudora Welty and E Lily Yu — often contain ...

An experienced editor shows how well-crafted words can help us serve God and neighbor. Rarely does an aspiring writer get invited to sit with an ink-dyed editor to hash over the finer points of ...

Joy Gregory is a writer who has worked on such shows as Joan of Arcadia and Madam Secretary. Before entering the television industry she worked in theater in Chicago. She has a particular interest in ...

I’ve attended seven funerals of friends who died by suicide. Most were for friends I knew through church, and all of them gutted me. So when asked if I would review Miriam Toews’s new memoir, I ...

A low-residency MFA writing program is a master’s degree curriculum in which students gather on a campus to attend lectures and workshops for a week or two every semester, and then return to their ...

As we think about the Bible in relation to Christian writing, we must define Scripture in terms of the King James or Authorized Version. The literary influence of other translations through more than ...