There's nothing that brings about hope for change and new beginnings quite like the transition from one year to the next.

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Carl Jung famously said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” On a recent three-hour flight—which turned into a 12-hour layover nightmare—I ...

Since many of us have school, jobs, or other commitments to attend to throughout the day, nighttime is the perfect hour to refocus, recenter, and reconnect with God. In the silence of night, one can ...

The Sunday after the murder of George Floyd, the liturgies of Thomas Cranmer weren’t cutting it. In her latest book, Cole Arthur Riley describes logging in to an online Episcopal church service that ...

The Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, a Jewish prayer book that has survived through centuries, will be offered by Sotheby’s in 2026.

Almost immediately after the horrific Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, most Orthodox Jewish congregations began the practice of saying additional Tehillim (Psalms), usually chapters 121 and 130, after ...

My daughter was confirmed this spring, and I was bit surprised at how moved I was by the ceremony, especially when the bishop called down the Holy Spirit upon the group of gangly teenagers. It made me ...

Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper, publisher and CEO of the AFRO-American Newspapers, has released a new book spotlighting the invaluable contributions of past publisher, Dr. Carl J. Murphy. In her latest ...

A precious object finds its way home. By Ken Schlager It started with an email. The subject line: “Sylvia Kanner’s Siddur.” Kanner was my late mother’s maiden name. Siddur is the Hebrew word for ...