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“Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise.” Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures. “Once upon a time there was an...

Translation matters in the body of a “foreign thing,” הָגָר. And with this bit of text, Hebrew Bible scholar, the Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney reminds us all that nobody knows the name of this slave, this woman, in Any-Body’s Mother-Tongue much less in Her Own...

Never underestimate a spinner of tales like the great novelist Toni Morrison, even though you might be tempted to do so by the beginning of her Nobel Prize lecture, delivered after she won the prize for literature in 1993. That's because she begins...

Source: David De Lossy / Getty @kwellscomm  PraiseIndy.com News & Sports  — Wet and slick…those are the buzz words for Tuesday, the day President Barack Obama will bid farewell to the nation, live. (More on that below.) Good day to you… Indy’s...

© Joshua LOTT/AFP/Getty Images The persistence of racial discrimination in America is only news to those of us who have never been on the receiving end. For many African-Americans and other minorities, it’s a pervasive reality rather than a newsworthy...