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...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
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...
From my seat on the meditation cushion, I saw neon green leaves outside the window. Blue sky lay between them, with hot pink flowers sprinkled in. I was at a...
My first encounter with the knitting Madonna (as some call her) was not in church or in a museum, but rather on the internet. I was aimlessly cycling through...
It’s been decades since Father’s Day made any demands on me: no searching for the perfect card or gift for father, father-in-law, or grandfathers. Yet their...
Nearly 20 years ago, an immigration raid sent shockwaves through our community. I was 20 when la migra (immigration authorities) swarmed into the Discount...
The negative feedback I remember most from childhood was that I had a “sharp tongue.” I wasn’t a backstabbing mean girl, but boy could I slice a person in half...
I’ll never forget the second grader who, while preparing for first communion, asked me, “Does communion come from heaven?” Midway through my rambling and...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, was released on May 25, 10 days after its signing. The date of the signing was significant, taking place...
