As a climber, having faith in my own body isn’t a matter of convincing myself it is perfect just the way it is. It’s a matter of not preemptively accepting failure.
Rev. Raphael Warnock’s victory shows how a new moral majority—multiracial and interfaith—can begin to reclaim faith from the grip of reactionary white Christians.
“For my kids, using their imaginations isn’t just a way to pass the time; it’s a spiritual survival strategy, one that just might help us parents survive, too.”
Sr. Simone Campbell talks about how the courage to confront our own brokenness can bring about personal and political healing in this fractured moment.
Young people today are skeptical of institutions and have lower levels of trust in traditional kinds of authority. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
“Some days, although we cannot pray—because we are too busy, or because we are in too much pain, or simply because the words will not come—a prayer utters itself.”
Physical objects carry meaning for us, but their accumulation can be a kind of spiritual error. Reconciling this contradiction leads us to richer, deeper lives.
This time of pandemic and mass interracial demonstrations has revealed gaping wounds in our body politic. The ancient homilist Origen can help us heal them.
Stephen Hough, one of the world’s greatest musical performers, speaks with us about bioethics, sacramentality, and the challenges of living as a gay Catholic.
The gift of the Holy Spirit allows us to passionately fight for the peace of Christ, a peace far greater than the one offered by oppressive authorities.
As cases of the novel coronavirus rise again across the United States, we’re reminded of our mortal fragility, but also of God’s promise of eternal life.
Summer’s here, and we’re reading new books by women writers about God, communal religious practice, and the strangeness of American life at the margins.
A Czech priest and writer, Fr. Tomáš Halík served as a spokesperson for the church during the Velvet Revolution. His autobiography is now available in English.
Pentecost readings can lead to easy, watered-down homiletics about unity amid diverse peoples. In response to the killing of George Floyd, the church must do more.
Mary Ward’s trajectory proves an axiom in church history: it is often those who suffer humbly and patiently from the church’s contradictions who end up redeeming it.
Dorothea Lange’s life of looking at others, especially those harmed by unjust systems, helped her see that victims were more than just their socioeconomic scars.
God is everywhere; for those who do not find him so easily in church pews, the ocean shore or a patterned turtle shell may be places to seek his presence.
