Religious History

"With poise and restraint, Rilla Askew's historical novel 'Prize for the Fire' tells the brilliant, multifaceted story of an intelligent, virtuous, and indomitable woman." -- Foreword Reviews

One of the world's leading Early Music ensembles, The Tallis Scholars will make their Oklahoma debut tonight, Thursday the 1st, at a 7pm concert in downtown Tulsa.

Our guest will conduct Saint John's Parish Choir, soloists, and an orchestra of period instruments.

This novel explores the Plymouth Colony as well as America's first murder.

"A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn't always think she'd live to tell her story." -- The New York Times

"An affecting and informative memoir about the lessons we can glean from life as well as death." -- Library Journal

"The book's title is a pun, and it's an apt one. What stands out the most from this gripping volume is how a reverence for authority -- if the right person is in charge -- is encoded into the various strands of this movement.... Required reading for anyone who wants to map the continuing erosion of our already fragile wall between church and state." -- The Washington Post

Robinson, perhaps best known for her brilliant novels "Housekeeping" (1980) and "Gilead" (2004), writes fiction that's praised for its graceful and insightful depictions of faith, family life, and rural America.

Novelist TaraShea Nesbit offers "Beheld," now out in paperback, which looks at the Mayflower Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony from the various perspectives of only female characters.

Death is something very few of like to talk about, or even think about, but it's a fact of life, after all -- the final fact of life, you might say. What…