If you were to draft a list of the 10 most important buildings in America, we expect it would include landmarks like the White House or iconic homes l...
In Harlem, 62-year-old Isaiah Owens is known as "Fix Em," for his ability to repair dead bodies ravaged by disease, mishap or violence; in the forthco...
PBS showed a reality that is lost on data-driven "reformers." Social scientists have documented the primary importance of socio-emotional factors and the need to build trust before academics can improve. And that takes patience.
In the time it takes to read this article, someone in the United States will contract HIV and, according to recent statistics, there's a 50 percent ch...
She was a painter who rarely painted. He was an architecture school dropout. Together they would define the aesthetic and lifestyle of American modern...
We've gone throughout the country, exploring the subtleties of calling. We started with one question: What does calling mean to you? From there conversations went far afield.
When I began to work on The Calling, my PBS documentary series on clergy students, I set out to look at faith in the U.S. with a keen eye and a warm heart.
By Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
"The Calling," a four-hour documentary that airs Dec. 20-21 on PBS stations, looks at seven young Muslim, Ca...
In Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, a PBS documentary series released Nov. 9 on DVD, journalist Bill Moyers asks, "In a world where religion is poison to some and salvation to others, how do we live together?"
Tonight, PBS airs "The People V. Leo Frank," a documentary that chronicles the bizarre, ugly case of Leo Frank. Frank was a Cornell-educated industria...
I first read Merton, a cloistered monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky for most of his life, as a student and was instantly besotted with his unique mix of humanity and holiness.