I came to faith because of magnets. I was raised in a family that found no conflict between faith and science. It was only when I was older that I learned that...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
“It is up to us to see God in those people who are suffering,” Pope Francis declared during one of his passionate homilies during the 15th World...
In 2002 Spike Lee came out with the compelling film 25th Hour. Edward Norton plays the lead, a convicted drug felon who has 24 hours of freedom before his...
It was a beautiful and breezy October morning when high school senior Joshua Gonzalez carried his first casket. Gonzalez was one of six students from the...
I was behind and I didn’t even know it. Despite considering myself a progressive, open parent, I took our 3-year-old son to his annual doctor’s checkup only to...
This past April, my husband tweeted: “Once fall comes, many husbands make football widows of their wives. But in spring, my wife leaves me for garage sale...
“Know who you really are and how God can use you,” one of my seminary teachers exhorted. Living this injunction, simple albeit powerful in message, has been an...
Those who practice Zen refer to sitting in meditation as zazen. The Japanese word means “just sitting.” They do nothing else except sit and wait...
Siblings are on my mind as I prepare to celebrate the feast day of St. Martha on July 29—one of my favorites! St. Martha is among the New Testament’s most...
When I think of my teen years, I mostly remember a dark road. When I turned 15 I got my license and, with a small sum of money my dad gave me after he sold my...
