Should a movie set entirely in rural Arkansas, directed by an American director and filmed in the United States count as a foreign movie or an American one? When "Minari," a semiautobiographical film ...

This is a column by Athens native, Jessica Johnson, a lecturer at The Ohio State University's Lima campus. She is a regular contributor to the Athens Banner-Herald. Juneteenth has now been a federal ...

I’m one of those people who you see sitting in the front row at church. It has nothing to do with me thinking I am holier than anybody else by sitting up front or trying to score brownie points by ...

Find today’s readings here. I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. (Lk 11:8) The ...

The recent hijab controversy in Kochi raises deeper questions about liberty, pluralism, and whether Kerala is witnessing subtle signs of "micro revivalism." When I first read about the incident—a ...

Many Jews in Jesus’ day looked forward with hope to the end of the world. The Pharisees and Essenes did so, as did the disciples of John the Baptist and of Jesus. The world all around them was ...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA >> One North Korean defector in Seoul describes her family back home quietly singing Christian hymns every Sunday while someone stood watch for informers. A second cowered under a ...

GARY — Chamber of Commerce President Chuck Hughes approached the podium with an air of pride as he scanned the audience of approximately 100 who were seated in chairs draped elegantly in white fabric ...