“Don’t just do something, sit there!” That’s one of my favorite expressions, and I often say it to urge friends to engage in contemplation even when busy. This...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
This is my feline conversion story. I live in the urban beach peninsula of Rockaway, Queens, a part of New York City which in many ways is far different than...
“I found it!” My heart jumped at those words. It was June 2024, and we were a band of rain-soaked, footsore Camino pilgrims near Armenteira, Spain, searching...
I remember sitting on the floor of my college dorm with a group of young women my freshman year when someone mentioned they had learned how to manage their...
I live in an intentional community in a Quaker meetinghouse, and while rummaging through the Quaker library one day, I came across laminated, yellowing prints...
Damon Garcia is the author of “You Don’t Need a Calling: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose” (Broadleaf Books). When Damon Garcia was growing...
Every Sunday, during the Creed, Catholics profess their belief in the “communion of saints.” For most of us, most of the time, this conjures an image of...
I did a double take when Al Pacino’s face filled the projector screen during my undergraduate class on sacraments. Our professor, a Benedictine priest, wanted...
On a rainy summer evening in 1997, I joined about 40,000 other men for the opening night of a Christian men’s conference that held the same ethos as a football...
