I came in on my knees,” Marshall McLuhan wrote of his conversion to Catholicism. “That is the only way in.” The celebrated 20th-century media theorist was a...
Wise Guides
Wise Guides essays explore how saints and holy figures offer wisdom for today. In each reflection, the author connects a historical person’s ministry to our modern spiritual and moral challenges.
Few modern figures have been as universally respected and admired as Jane Goodall. Goodall was known first for being an anthropologist and primatologist...
Many years ago, I visited the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges. Wandering along the canals, I came to what is called a beguinage, where women called Beguines...
In Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home), Pope Francis explicitly evoked the Christo-cosmic vision of the French Jesuit paleontologist and theologian...
People say you never forget a first impression, but I honestly couldn’t tell you my first impression of St. Pope Paul VI. At first, I suppose, Paul VI was just...
As someone who tends to get stuck in my head, over-analyzing thoughts and arguments to find flaws and make meaning, studying theology was an obvious academic...
In September 2002, on the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I was 10 years old, living in New York, and full of frightened questions about...
One day in fourth grade, I checked out from the library a book with a teal jacket bearing intersecting light green circles; it was titled A Wrinkle in Time...
I first came across the writings of Dominican Father Herbert McCabe about seven years after his death in 2001. At the time, there existed a seemingly endless...
By all accounts, Mother Mary Lange was a holy woman. She was also a revolutionary in every way that a visibly Black nun ministering in the slaveholding and...
