Heather Kirn Lanier teaches at Southern Vermont College and is the author of the memoir Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach For America (University of Missouri Press).

I am a skeptic who goes to church on Sundays. Over the past year, I started reading chunks of the Bible every day, and I was surprised by the man I met. I did not encounter the Jesus of my Baptist ...

Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrates the White Mass at St. Francis Deaf Catholic Church in Landover Hills, Md., Oct. 18, 2020. Mary O’Meara, director of the Archdiocese of Washington’s ...

Without wishing to offend any devout believers, I feel it's only right to point out that the imminent annual celebration of the birth of Jesus may be a mixed blessing from the point of view of some ...