Growing up in Nigeria, my two brothers and I often sat around our mother and listened to her tell us stories. My mother was an enthusiastic storyteller. One...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
It is around noon on the Camino when we stop at a trailside café for lunch. There is an open table underneath a canopy where we set down our backpacks. Someone...
The associations many Catholics have with baptism are warm, familial ones. Parents, grandparents, and new godparents gather around with other relatives...
In February 2023, a revival started in the chapel at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. It started with a small group of students lingering after worship...
Although the connection between artificial intelligence and theology might seem a bit tenuous to some, for Joshua K. Smith, author of Robot Theology (Wipf and...
A friend recently confided to me that he and his dad had used ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence text chatbot, to write an obituary for his uncle. His dad...
Back in my days as a college pagan hedonist, I returned to my University of Washington dorm from Thanksgiving dinner with my parents having contracted a...
In February 2023, U.S. Catholic published an article called “The Catholics who refuse to leave” about a handful of Catholics who, despite frustration with...
When I was working on my memoir, Atchison Blue (Sorin Books), about my regular visits with the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas, I met Sister Kathleen...
It crossed my mind recently that what I really need to be the parent I want to be is a personality transplant. When I think of the parents I most admire, in...
