It is easy to see the floodwaters. But what’s harder to grasp is what we’re drowning in. This year alone, the Philippines has ...

The magnitude 6.9 tremor that shook Cebu province on the night of Sept. 30 did more than topple buildings, turn homes into ...

I almost didn’t make it [to Oxford],” a visiting Nepalese scholar told me, with the sun gently filtering through the glass walls behind. “They burned all the documents across government ...

In these troubled times, the timeless parable of “The Rich Man and Lazarus” from Luke 16:19-31 offers a stark and sobering lens through which to view the current revelations. Jesus’ narrative, ...

Jane Goodall, the world’s most famous primatologist, died last Oct. 1 and has been eulogized as one of the world’s greatest scientists, especially for changing the way we look at ourselves, at ...