"Extinction boom" is a term in evolutionary biology describing the paradoxical surge that sometimes occurs just before a species disappears. When a population exhausts its habitat--too many bodies, ...

Mavis Staples's new album hums with a hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old’s raspy contralto. It is titled ...

An excerpt from "Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around" on family history, gospel music, and the great Christian legacy of the ...

For decades, Tibetans built a capital in exile in Dharamshala, India, and sent their kids to a school founded by the Dalai Lama. That's now changing.

The children’s song "He Cares for Me" in the new hymnbook "was a contribution that I could make to the Lord even if nobody else saw it," said the author and composer, Kenneth S. Schank.