Goshen college theologian Jo Ann Brant talks about interpreting the story of Lot’s wife, who gets turned into a pillar of salt.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Joyce Tenneson is a portrait photographer whose new book is a collection of flower photos. Her work celebrates flowers at every stage of their life cycle.
Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
Robert Glasper's new album Black Radio is a reference to the black box of recordings that survives a plane crash.
Richard Poplak tells Anne Strainchamps about the ill-fated attempt to adapt The Simpsons for the Arab world.
John MacGregor is an art historian with psychiatric training, and the author of “Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal.”
When independent radio producer Karen Michel moved from her apartment in Brooklyn out to the country – near the Hudson River - she wanted to know what her new neighbors really cared about. What, for them, it truly meant to live in a democracy where freedom is taken for granted.
Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not. The young science of astrobiology is closing in on a discovery that will rock our world: there IS life beyond earth. New telescopes, new missions, and new discoveries in outer space and in the most remote areas of our own planet all point to one conclusion. Extra terrestrial life exists, and we're very close to finding it. Science writer Marc Kaufman explains what's changed.
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