The church has many titles for Mary. The ones with which people may be most familiar are “Mother of God” (Theotokos) or the “Blessed Virgin.” She is known as...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Meredith Anne Miller is an author and the co-pastor of Pomona Valley Church, an online and dinner church based in SOuthern California. If you make a reference...
Sometimes it can be difficult to see what, if any, enduring legacy exists in the 21st century for a saint who died 800 years ago this October. But St. Francis...
Somewhere, women were laughing. The sound carried me back to my childhood, when I’d lie in my bed comforted by the voices of my older sisters talking in their...
When I look at the calendar on my phone, each day is more color-coded than the dashboard of a 20-year-old clunker of a car. I cannot recall how long I have...
I was nervous before I met Ruth Burrows for the first time at the Quidenham Carmelite Monastery. Here I was, about to encounter one of the greatest spiritual...
Growing up, I thought of the rosary as a prayer for grandmas. It was—to an active, impatient child like me—a boring prayer the grown-ups forced me to say on...
David Dault is a theologian, author, editor, and associate professor of Christian Spirituality at Loyola University Chicago. The Guinness Book of World Records...
Ask an AI tool to write a prayer for a sick friend, and a polished response appears within seconds. That speed can make the process seem immaterial, but every...
