This is a great question from one of our readers! According to the Gospel of Luke, on the night Jesus is born, an angel appears to a group of shepherds to tell...
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I was sitting on my bed in a moment of mental health crisis when I got a call from my friend Emily. (I changed her name for the purposes of anonymity.) I was...
Pints with Aquinas is a 21st-century podcast named for a 13th-century theologian—and, with millions of downloads, it’s one of the most popular Catholic audio...
“Tio BrandonAndy!” That’s what our niece has called me and my husband, Andy, since she was 2. She calls us “Tio” because she speaks Spanish. And she calls us...
Sam Rocha remembers the strong recoil of the gun. His father had told him he could have an early inheritance—his great-grandfather Crecencio Rocha’s hundred...
When St. Paul wrote, in his letter to the Romans, about a “law written on the hearts” of the Gentiles, he wasn’t just using a fanciful metaphor or trying to...
I am a child of Korean immigrants. In 1975, my family immigrated to a small white city in Canada. Our neighbors knew little about Koreans except for through TV...
From Hebrew scriptures to contemporary television, from Medieval manuscripts to Victorian greeting cards, angels loom large in the collective imagination of...
Rosemary P. Carbine is a theologian, author, and associate professor of religious studies at Whittier College in Whittier, California. “Religion, especially...
Growing up in a conservative evangelical church, the closest I came to understanding queer theology was in narrow, binary terms. Queer theology was theology...
