With busy schedules, chatty small groups, and personalized quiet times, we’ve neglected the rigor of learning the Bible.

Honestly, this study could have been a quick rehash of 2023 and 2024's New Year's resolution Bible studies, Vols. 248 and 198 ...

The Holy Bible continues to be an international bestseller with the New International Version and the more recent English ...

Genesis-to-Revelation plans are popular, but most Christians will grow closer to God and his Word at a slower pace.

“This is a gorgeous and original meditation on Blackness through the lens of another color: blue. The National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry’s Black in Blues is a slim but profound volume of ...

‘Tis the season for reflecting on a well-read year. So, after all that reading, which books are we still thinking about now? The truth is, the best book of the year is deeply personal to every reader.

The best way to fight doomscrolling in 2025? Getting off your phone and picking up a book. Luckily for us, there were plenty of un-put-down-able reads this year. Whether your genre of choice is ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today Science From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of ...

Books can be a refuge from (waves arms) all this, even when they take you deeper into the darkness of 2025. There is a grace in the relationship between book and reader, with nothing but your eyes and ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...