This was not my usual kind of turning, but I thought it was an interesting project to take on. I was contacted by a firm who ...

Dinkelsbühl, one of Germany’s best-preserved medieval towns, glows beautifully at sunset. Walking its narrow lanes, you’ll pass colorful façades, charming squares, and St. George’s Minster rising ...

This is the introduction to Middle East Dispatch, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents take a ...

Pluscarden Abbey has always intrigued me. Just 15 minutes from my home in Elgin, it is Britain’s only medieval monastery ...

A crowd of around 250 cheered in the Melrose Ballroom in Astoria on a recent night in what looked like a scene from “Game of ...

When we learn music today, one of the first things we encounter is the familiar set of syllables used to name the notes of ...

My Sundays are as ritualized as a medieval monk’s. Of course, my rituals are radically different from theirs. I don’t pray, meditate or painstakingly copy manuscripts. Nor do I sing Gregorian chants, ...

A new Shabbat prayerbook by The Kitchen congregation in San Francisco blends Ashkenazi and Sephardic liturgy, a first for a U ...

The stakes were cosmic. Would the crimson thread turn white, as hinted in Isaiah 1:18, “Though your sins be like scarlet, ...

So let the world rage. Let the UN pass its resolutions. Let the mobs chant in the streets. We have seen it all before. The ...

For the October Art Diary, I feature exhibitions by several artists whose work I have championed through essays and ...