Still, the menagerie around the manger reflects the Franciscan vision—there is a donkey and ox, as in Greccio, along with a ...

Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we can build beloved community simply by showing up for one another. The promise of what Sharon ...

Pope Francis’s plan to build an eco-village in the historic gardens of Castel Gandolfo, the summer residence of the popes, ...

If we’re honest with ourselves, to be alive is to be vulnerable. It’s inextricably part of being human. We’re born naked and ...

Episode 44: Biblical scholar and theologian Peter Enns, author of Curveball Welcome to Madang. Madang is the outdoor living ...

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The setting by the lake was beautiful. The people were beautiful, the food was beautiful, and we were in a beautiful restaurant surrounded by beautiful things. I felt completely comfortable. I felt ...

Here we are again in an old and familiar place. There is nothing new about lethal police brutality against Black civilians, except that this time it was the life of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols that was ...

We are at a moment of cultural and spiritual deconstruction. That word is often associated with evangelicalism, as exvangelicals move away from conservative religious positions and begin to take apart ...

It was the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and David Peters thought he might be dying. It wasn’t COVID; it was his liver—but his illness was directly related to the conditions the pandemic had ...

When I began working as the chaplain at Lyon College, an Arkansas school affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), I was looking for ways that the local PCUSA congregation could support our ...

In 1973, scholar and Jesuit priest Michel de Certeau wrote that he was “feeling the Christian ground on which I thought I was walking disappear, seeing the messengers of an ending, long time under way ...