For the first time ever, the entire New Testament of the Bible will be spoken aloud word for word, by memory, on stage. Tom Meyer, a professor of Bible studies from northern Kentucky, had the idea of ...

THE sun was more than an hour away from peeking over the horizon as congregants trickled into the chapel of Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church on Monday. Inside, senior pastor Alf Halvorson waited at ...

Like the rest of us, he may forget what he needed at the grocery store or where he put his keys,but 65-year-old Jason Nightingale remembers something few of us do: the Bible, and not just a couple ...

In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...

Monotheists of every stripe -- Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim -- worship the same God. Yet despite the potential for harmony inherent in this shared belief, many of ...

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A Hasidic story relating to the season of penitence and atonement recently observed in the Jewish community tells of the unlettered young shepherd boy, who, toward the end of the daylong prayers and ...

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. By Tas Tobey When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

There are 93 women who speak in the Bible, 49 of whom are named. These women speak a total of 14,056 words collectively -- roughly 1.1 percent of the total words in the holy book. These are the ...

She is to poetry what rock stars are to music: Afra talks about the seemingly forgotten age-old art form and the hypnotic allure of her stage performances Afra, who will be at the Emirates Lit Fest ...