When I was a college freshman—at the time a liberal arts major—my creative writing instructor told us that the way to learn how to write stories was to read...
Theology
There’s a certain diagnosis you will hear over and over if you start to ask Catholics about Jesus—particularly about other Catholics’ relationships with Jesus...
Robert Orsi makes a brave choice in his recent book Between Heaven and Earth (Princeton University Press). “There’s a taboo associated with speaking out of...
People of faith call the Bible the inspired word of God. It seems like such a simple matter: One presumes the Bible must be true, good, helpful, and...
“Faith is a gift,” writes Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez. “To receive this gift means putting oneself behind Jesus as he walks, putting his teachings into...
What do you think of when you hear the word pray? The Lord’s Prayer? Praying before meals? Chances are, it has something to do with words or speaking. But...
How to Read the Bible By Harvey Cox (HarperOne, 2015) In 1965 a young Harvard theologian named Harvey Cox achieved national fame with The Secular City...
Imagine if we were able to see evolution as a sign of the unlimited potential of God’s creation, rather than a threat to our limited point of view. For the...
I once found great comfort in the black-and-white world of apologetics. The Catechism of the Catholic Church provided the answers to all of my questions...
Would you recognize the word of God? Not the words from the Bible, which are sufficiently formal and weighty to convey proper divine authority, not to mention...
