THE summer days climbed slowly over the Great Smoky Mountains. Long the morning lingered among the crags, and chasms, and the dwindling shadows. The vertical noontide poised motionless on the great ...

I am writing to express my opinion about the coronavirus. I think we should refer to the great prophets of the past — Nostradamus, The Sleeping Prophet (Edgar Cayce) and the elderly lady, Baba Vanga ...

A Byzantine icon of Sts. Peter and Paul. (Credit: Wikipedia commons.) Listen It has been suggested that no previous pope has taken the name “Francis” because St. Francis was too holy and the popes ...

Southern historian J. Wayne Flynt, a retired Auburn University professor who was a longtime friend of Harper Lee, reflected on her death today at the age of 89. Flynt refers to her novel "To Kill a ...

IT was not so dreary in the dark depths of the cavern as in the still white world without; and the constable of the district, one Ephraim Todd, found the flare of the open furnace and the farreaching ...