During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirby Hoberg noticed that her pastor began to give, in her words, “a lot of strange homilies.” These included “homilies that...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
My young daughter often asks me at bedtime about my favorite childhood memories. As I share them with her, I have come to realize they often involve other...
Part of me resented when my 68-year-old mom mentioned offhandedly that she was shopping for what she plans to be her final computer. “Laptops tend to last me...
From his first address on the balcony of St. Peter’s Square on Thursday evening, Pope Leo XIV has been introducing his theological style to his 1.4 billion...
We all make choices every day, and these choices mean we help some people and not others. And it is common sense (and our common practice) that we love more...
Returning from Rio de Janeiro just a few months into his papacy, Pope Francis held the first of what would become his signature in-flight press conferences. He...
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...
It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was...
Longing brought me back to the hope of the resurrection. A longing stronger than any I had known, in the midst of a loss unlike any that came before. Eighteen...
