The experience of darkness as a disorienting reality, full of the unknown, seems to be imprinted deeply on each of our souls. In Genesis 1, God separated light from darkness.

Choosing light over darkness June 21 was the beginning of summer and has the longest hours of daylight. In the northernmost areas of the earth, it is light 24 hours a day during the beginning of ...

Ozzy Osbourne, preeminent wizard of heavy metal, has taken his final bow. How did he get millions to bang their heads to pain, suffering, and misery?

In my new light, I saw the darkness, i.e., light came after darkness, not within it. A few years earlier, another deeper darkness grew in me ever so slowly.

Finding hope is hard. And so we light a candle in prayer. We ask the light to shine in the darkness when we cannot. We ask the Holy Spirit to give words to our prayer, when we have none.

The miracle of the resurrection is God's message that love is, as Jesus taught, the very light of life, the hope for humanity, and that not even death can destroy or defeat it.

As you make your way through the darkness and latch onto the fact that the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 96% of the world’s ocean, you feel a wave of relief stepping into the next part of ...

Going into the documentary "From Darkness to Light," most reasonably well-informed movie fans would know three things about "The Day the Clown Cried," the Jerry Lewis Holocaust movie that is the ...

Dr. Pipher is a clinical psychologist and writer in Lincoln, Neb., and the author, most recently, of “A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence.” This essay was originally published in ...