In my first semester of college as a classics major, I translated from Latin the opening passage of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. This wasn’t ever a book I came across in parochial school or ...

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A reader sent me a friendly note this week, chiding me for not writing more about the Bible and this article is the reply to that request. If asked what their favorite book of the Bible is, perhaps a ...

How Ecclesiastes diagnoses our doomed quests for happiness. As a writer, David Foster Wallace is probably best known for his gargantuan novel Infinite Jest—the copiously footnoted book many fans have ...

One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain ...

Pastor Steve Traw gave the sermon, “The Home of One’s Heart,” from Ecclesiastes 3:10-11. We often ask ourselves what we want in life, or where life leads ...