In 'Thoreau’s God,' Richard Higgins takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Thoreau’s extensive work, looking at the ways the philosopher thought about the divine and the human relation to the divine.

The ”Bad Guys” films ask, how do we determine who the “bad guys” are? And if you’re marked as “bad” from the start, can you ever make good?

The editors of 'America' have been opining on what you should read for over a century. Some of their suggestions have aged better than others.

Drama can teach us active listening and public speaking, yes; but on a deeper level, it can shape our spiritual disposition.

In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.

It has been 56 years since humankind went to the moon—but it's still on our minds.