“If you can’t have peace nowhere else in this world, you ought to have it in your own home.” Whenever my grandma would say that, I’d lean in—mostly...
Spirituality
Discover resources and reflections to integrate Catholic spirituality into daily routines, relationships, and parish life.
Soon after moving to Florida, I fractured my ankle. My life felt fractured, too. Disoriented by the loss of a flourishing ministry and community in Ohio, I...
This is my feline conversion story. I live in the urban beach peninsula of Rockaway, Queens, a part of New York City which in many ways is far different than...
“I found it!” My heart jumped at those words. It was June 2024, and we were a band of rain-soaked, footsore Camino pilgrims near Armenteira, Spain, searching...
On a rainy summer evening in 1997, I joined about 40,000 other men for the opening night of a Christian men’s conference that held the same ethos as a football...
When an addiction recovery sponsor told journalist, playwright, and screenwriter Julia Cameron that her sobriety depended on returning to the practices and...
My son Henry sat opposite me in our living room, trying to cross off a confirmation-related assignment on his to-do list: an interview with a parent about...
I grew up bound for Colorado. We have family there, and every summer we would leave the Midwest in a van filled with siblings, cousins, and tías. Every trip...
Few modern figures have been as universally respected and admired as Jane Goodall. Goodall was known first for being an anthropologist and primatologist...
The only thing I really knew Iceland for was its hot dogs, sold from a stand called Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur. Novelist John Green reviewed them on a five-star...
