Is there anything better than the sort of nail-biting, spine-tingling book that keeps you reading all night and still thinking about the story long after you finish? You may think there's nothing...
There's no denying that the endless supply of true crime programming Netflix gives us is totally nightmare-inducing, but if you want a really good scare, we suggest picking up a true crime book...
Lucy Liu isn't wasting any time lining up her next gig now that Elementary is officially coming to an end after Season 7. CBS announced today that Liu would lead the new CBS All Access dramatic...
Virginia Allen is an administrative assistant in the Communications Department of The Heritage Foundation. Amalia Halikias and Josh Bansal entered Yale University in 2011 and 2012 as two liberal...
Editor’s Note: This annotated bibliography was created by Kendra Haloviak Valentine and is shared here with permission. Click on the titles for more information about each book. Bauckham, Richard.
Things are about to get intense on The Expanse as the sci-fi series heads to Amazon Prime Video for its fourth season. In a video posted to the show's official Twitter feed, actor Burn Gorman...
Google Books contains more than 25 million volumes, disembodied like spirits from their spines. They were digitized by data entry workers who flip the pages for machines, working so quickly their...
Brenda Janowitz is the POPSUGAR books correspondent. She is the author of five novels, including The Dinner Party. Polar vortex, we are so over you. Thank you, next.
Taking a story from a book and putting it on the big screen is a process that many people have done throughout the years. In fact in the 70s as in any other decade it almost seems as though the...
As Black History Month commences, here are a few must-have books from Black authors, spanning time periods, themes and genres. However, one thing they have in common is critical acclaim and a strong...
I get a lot of books in the mail and once a month or so like to sit down and tell you about some of the especially notable ones. So here they are: the new and notable books for February.
Movies based on books rarely ever get translated 100 percent but the upside is that they get made all the same. In the 90s there were some truly interesting stories that made it to the big screen...
“Unfortunately,” wrote historian Jemar Tisby last year for The Witness, “it seems that apart from an intentional effort otherwise, Black history is often lost in the mists of time.
Books that become movies in any decade are subject to a lot of changes, a great deal of difference between the book and the movie, and of course are bound to be heavily scrutinized by fans that want...
A few days ago, Marvel announced that they would be producing a Star Wars comic series that takes place on Batuu, the Outer Rim planet that will be the home of Disneyland’s and Walt Disney World’s...
The Bioshock series of games are better entertainment than most movies and more thoughtful than most novels. Let’s get this out of the way: the acting in the three Bioshock games is not The Passion...
Diverse literature is more essential than ever in today's current climate. Books are some of the best tools for developing tolerance and empathy, and few books are as rich and nuanced as those...
Ruthie Ann Miles continues to soldier on in the wake of tragedy. The Tony Award winner has booked her first gig since the car crash that took the life of her 5-year-old daughter and the loss of her...
Marie Kondo has a point about books. The Japanese tidiness expert has become a cultural sensation with a Netflix show in which she helps people organize and declutter their homes.
The Big Bang Theory has finally found a role worthy of Star Trek‘s Captain Kirk. CBS on Wednesday announced that William Shatner is set to guest-star in an upcoming Dungeons & Dragons-themed...
It's been decades since Ted Bundy terrorized campuses and young women across the country in what has come to be known as one of America's most prolific and gruesome crime sprees in history.
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As you know, Summorum Pontificum affirms that priests and those obliged to say the Office, can use the traditional, pre-Conciliar Breviarium Romanum. A while back I answered a query about use of the...
Is the New York Times book review truly a haven of centrism and neutrality? Lara Takenaga had a cozy, criticism-free talk with Book Review editor Pamela Paul (Times Book Review editor since 2013)...
Read enough books, listen to enough smart people talk about those books and certain obvious truths are hard to remember. Teach a freshman class in college and sometimes the younglings remind you of...
The world of Gilead is expanding even further in the third season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” with Christopher Meloni and Elizabeth Reaser joining the cast in guest starring roles.
The author of "13 Reasons Why" claims he was expelled from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators over false allegations of sexual harassment ... this according to a new lawsuit.
Break out the chocolate pudding, because Coral's back! Chandler Riggs — best known for playing Carl Grimes on The Walking Dead — will be joining ABC's family drama A Million Little Things for a...
Reading is perhaps the greatest tool God gives us to aid us in our sanctification. The Bible is the greatest book, and without it, we couldn’t be saved. It should be the bread and butter of our...
READ THIS ISSUEBuilding on the Black Church’s Bible LegacyCan Anger at God Be Righteous?Who Owns a Woman’s Body? Not Who You Think. Get the best from CT editors, delivered straight to your inbox!...
Nottingham, UK: Inter-Varsity, 2006. McGrath defines doubt as not scepticism or unbelief, but as a mixture of questions and uncertainty, something that is “a permanent fixture of the Christian...
This clarification should spark serious joy for some booklovers. No, Marie Kondo does not want you to throw out all of your paperbacks. The author and breakout Netflix star of Tidying Up With Marie...
The style transfer craze kicked off by an app called Prisma a couple of years ago led to a tsunami of painterly selfies flooding social feeds for several months, as we reported at the time, before...
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Hitachi Ltd said on Thursday it has decided to freeze a 3 trillion yen ($28 billion) British nuclear power project and will consequently book a writedown of 300 billion yen.
Reading is perhaps the greatest tool God gives us to aid us in our sanctification. The Bible is the greatest book, and without it, we couldn’t be saved. It should be the bread and butter of our...
To its credit, Patheos encourages those who read blog posts also to read books. But last month Beth noticed that women were absent from recent Patheos Book Club selections aimed at this particular...
When you hear the name John Grisham a lot of people will automatically think of a court room setting and a high-priced lawyer trying to make the case that will elevate their career or set an...
Non-book readers may be wondering just what is to become of Roger (Richard Rankin) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) on Outlander this season and into the future. The pair have had quite the tumultuous...
This is an older book, but given that it is a consideration of some of the giants of pre-WWII anthropology, and that is part of what I want to focus on, I guess it is alright.
A reader named Andrew wrote to me and asked this question: What do you think the key books are in the Christian tradition on spiritual transformation? How about a top ten? Another reason for asking...
Remember when book clubs were a thing? Not long ago, before social media was what it is now, we were big on books and reading. We mean, what else were we going to do with our free time? We're not...
It's always fun to read books by authors with established careers and a long list of books to their name, but any true book-lover can agree that there's something exciting about being one of the...
Emily Bastien is nine years old and working on her third book. Her first two books, collections of short stories about being brave and having faith, are being read by kids and parents around the US...
So you’re a reader, but which books can give you the unique insight you need to make sure not only that the organization you lead is healthy, but that you and your team stay healthy.
Netflix is taking its subscribers into the Grishaverse. The streaming service announced today that Eric Heisserer (Bird Box, Arrival) will adapt two of Leigh Bardugo’s best-selling fantasy book...
I get books. I get lots and lots of books. As you well know, once a month or so I like to try and thin the pile a little bit and distill it down to the ones I think may be of most interest to people...
I wonder if you have ever noticed that Christian books authored by women tend to be written for women, while Christian books authored by men tend to be written for both men and women.
Everyday Glory: The Revelation of God in All of Reality by Gerald McDermott was largely inspired by the influence of Jonathan Edwards who, as McDermott notes, “believed that every last bit of the...
Mark-Paul Gosselaar had just finished “Pitch,” Fox’s one-season baseball drama in 2016, when he took the role of Brad Wolgast in the network’s adaptation of “The Passage.
As parents, we are our children’s first theology teachers. Like the women at the tomb on Easter morning, we run fearfully and joyfully to tell the people we love, “The tomb is empty! Christ has...
Denver, Colo., Jan 4, 2019 / 04:47 pm (CNA).- It’s probably a little late for retrospectives, but if you’re planning your 2019 reading list, here are six great novels and memoirs I read in 2018.