Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: Holiday travel. Our adult children who live far away plan to visit at Christmas. Due to...
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Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: COVID wedding? My friend is getting married this season, and I’m nervous about attending due to COVID...
“To say that Helen was our aunt is accurate, in the way that saying that the sun is a star is accurate,” my second cousin Paul began. He stood at the pulpit...
Barbara Dane loves middle schoolers. She’s been working with adolescents in a youth ministry capacity for more than 20 years. Before that, she taught seventh...
I live in a three-story house converted into apartments, and my upstairs neighbor, like me, is in her 30s. So are my downstairs neighbors. The yoga classes I...
It took nine months of attending services at her new parish before Sam, who is shy by nature and admits to avoiding events that could feel like a middle school...
But how do you get through the pain?” Although tears fill her eyes, the woman’s voice is adamant as she directs this question to the leader of the bereavement...
As a new parent, I received all kinds of advice. While I have no doubt that the admonitions, ranging from “enjoy every minute” to “take time for yourself,”...
In the hundreds of years since their development, the monastic rules of Saints Augustine, Benedict, and Francis have ordered and oriented the lives of monks...
Read the words “Monastic Rule” and images of chanting bearded men in coarsely woven habits, or rows of veiled sisters processing solemnly into a chapel likely...