“As your prophet leader, I pray for what our Heavenly Father wants for each of us — and that is to be or become active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, proceeding forward on ...

Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

Bhakti Mirchandani is Managing Director, Responsible Investing at Trinity Church NYC, and has been writing about sustainable and impact investing and public policy on Forbes.com for seven years. She ...

India is celebrating its 79th Independence Day on Friday, August 15, 2025. The day is celebrated across the country with pomp and show to commemorate the nation’s freedom from British colonial rule in ...

You might be surprised to learn that MP3 players still exist. Not only that, but they’re popular with people who take their music seriously – the kind that roll their eyes at lossy Spotify streams and ...

There is a plane of existence where daily worries — using the bathroom, paying the bills, winning popularity — evaporate instantly. The protagonist of Stone Yard Devotional recollects a moment on that ...

The plot of Charlotte Wood’s 2023 novel, 'Stone Yard Devotional,' unfolds inside a tiny convent in rural Australia. (Photo by Carly Earl) I feel like it’s taken me 10 books to learn how to write one.

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and contemplates how to live without causing harm. Credit...Wesley Allsbrook Supported by ...

Given the monastic pacing of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional,” I suppose it’s appropriate that we’ve had to wait patiently for it. Wood’s fellow Australians have been praising this story about ...

Noted musician Shankar Mahadevan, and Kolkata’s musician duo Sourando Soumyajit have given music lovers a special surprise. Mahadevan performed at the annual World Music Day Concert by ...

The broadcast of Gaan Bangla, a private music-focused television channel in Bangladesh, has been suspended. The channel went off-air abruptly at around 12pm on Wednesday. It has been reported that the ...