The hymn "O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High" tells the story of salvation, from Jesus' Incarnation through his Ascension to the sending of the Holy Spirit to his Church. The lyrics are a ...

Thomas A Kempis's four-part treatise The Imitation of Christ is presented in a lovely illustrated edition in The Imitation of Christ: Illustrated with Illuminated Manuscripts. This full-color gift ...

In the ongoing quest to bring some order into my life before it ends, I spent a few hours this week pawing through stacks of books. In the process I came across a beautifully bound, slip-covered ...

Thomas Haemerken came from Kempen near Düsseldorf. He was a shy, quiet little German monk with fresh coloring and piercing brown eyes. He was gentle with everyone, especially the poor. When the psalms ...

The title of this 1967 Andy Warhol feature, described as a “comic narrative,” derives from Thomas a Kempis’s 15th-century devotional classic, though presumably the filmmaker’s interests lie elsewhere.