Big Spring, Texas / / September 26, 2025 / Wordsmith World For many teenagers, opening the Bible can feel like stepping into ...

In the Jewish calendar, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—Oct. 2 this year. It is a fast day. Observant Jews eat and drink nothing between twilight on the eve of Yom ...

Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970) was descended from a famous 19th century orator, Edward Everett, who took three hours to say what Abraham Lincoln accomplished in less than three minutes in his ...

Notable religious and holy texts including the Quran, the Bible and the Torah are proposed to be shredded by the National Library in a move that’s expected to save the Government around $1 million ...

TOKYO -- Researchers in Japan have found that the more public library books a municipality has, the fewer residents require long-term nursing care. Why is this? The Mainichi Shimbun spoke with one of ...

Deputies raided an Iowa church and removed 88 children participating in a Bible study camp as part of a sweeping human trafficking investigation, police said Monday. The youngsters are now in ...

The death of Walter Brueggemann on June 5, 2025, occasioned an outpouring of reflections on and appreciations of his extraordinary life of scholarship and service, one defined by erudition as well as ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

A place that once offered employment and opportunity has become a backwater, not much more than a lonely borderland that supplies troops to the contentious Ukrainian war. However, its status as the ...

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos joins Morning Joe to discuss 'Tori and the Muses,' her new children's book. The book invites readers into an adventure where 'Little Tori' escapes the boundaries that ...

Tori Amos has surprise-released a new album to accompany her upcoming children’s book, Tori and the Muses. The nine-track album, The Music of Tori and the Muses, hit streaming services Friday, Feb. 28 ...