“God is too ... She was a great one for prayers, “not a holy joe” she clarified to me once, but she was a woman who loved a ...

Women are half of the church but end up being a category, an issue, a problem in a patriarchal institution with ingrained ...

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a community TV show encouraging young poets.

As we journey backward through the portals of time, long before the birthing of modern scientific thought, it becomes increasingly difficult to locate women whose contributions were noteworthy. One ...

This independence is most perfectly embodied in Cisneros’s 1994 poetry collection, Loose Woman. I came across the titular ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

Nothing is more miserable than an earnest Christian who pursues an ideal, miserable to self and to others. You have got to be in love. If there is a common focus for the female doctors of the church, ...

Few writers have ever captured in fiction the American religious sense that underlies so much of our history more than Willa ...

When God gives you 90 years, why not try and cheat death just a bit more? A Missouri woman seemed to think just ... grandchildren, and great-grandchildren — stood close at hand and cheered ...

L ate in his career, the English poet W. H. Auden distilled the whole business of poetry into three pungent lines: “A poet’s hope: to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, b ...

Shelby Lynne writes about one of the biggest heartbreaks of her life on her new project, 'Consequences of the Crown.' ...