The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas carols?

How Bhakti poetry, Sufi courts, and manuscript cultures together shaped Hindi as a written language. A multilingual, material history of vernacular power—read more.

Every morning, Basilian Salvatorian Father Christopher Sahd wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to pray before he goes outside and looks after the chickens. Sometimes, he will celebrate Mass at a conven ...

In a year marked by war and vengeance, Himanshi Narwal's refusal to demonise Muslims or Kashmiris offers a rare lesson in ...

Many Christmas staples feel timeless, but historians note they often began as games, folk customs or practical rituals. What we now call Christmas is a patchwork of theology, folklore, economics ...

A GRIP ON SPORTS • What did Sunday bring us? The usual. Peace. Love. Redemption. All of which will be on the line again next ...

From the Ozempic story to books on power, money and the new world order — plus fiction by Julian Barnes, Amitav Ghosh and ...

Ma’oz Tzur insists that Jewish memory is not linear progress but recurring danger. That insistence matters after Bondi.

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, it says in the first line of Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is “in the middle of the road of ...

A December afternoon, and I’m watching the afternoon sky turn from light to dark grey to black. An overgrown holly bush waves vigorously at me through the window. It is a stark backdrop, but one ...

Southbank’s Christmas markets are another of London ’s markets staying open late in December. Visitors can browse the independent craft traders, street food stalls and pop-up bars along the stretch of ...