I’ve always wondered about the verse in The Battle Hymn of the Republic that starts, “In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea…” Surely Julia Ward Howe didn’t think that lilies bloom ...

It was a dreary afternoon in February, and I was in the midst of spiritual dryness, wondering where God was and what he was doing in my life through this desolation. As I was pulling into my driveway, ...

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. —Matthew 6:28 These lines, say Botanists Harold Moldenke and his wife Alma, do not refer to lilies, which are rare ...

The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing quarterly literary magazines in America. It publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging and established ...