Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.

In 'Zero at the Bone,' Christian Wiman offers a prismatic series of 50 chapters (52, counting the mystical zeros at the beginning and end) featuring essays, poems, theological reflections, personal reminiscences and literary analyses.

In one way or another, these collections bear the traces of the divine, of the needful Christ.

John O’Donohue focuses on how paying attention to the outer landscape of our world cultivates the inner landscape of our soul.

An interview with Emily Wilson discusses the importance of the 'Iliad' to both young and old readers, its relationship with faith and what lessons we can glean about essential human nature from such an ancient text.

my shiver-feathered fly like prayer arcing sinking through the air