In it, author Naveed Sheikh claims that “the Christian civilization emerges as the most violent and genocidal in the world history.” Compared to Islam, Christianity is a clear winner: 31.94 million ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through ... “My sorrow’s flower was so small a joy / It took a winter seeing to see it as such,” he writes ...

For 2012, here is a poem set at, and in some sense about, the winter solstice. (Or, close to it and mixed up with it, St. Lucy's Day.) St. Lucy, blinded and the patron saint of blind people ...