The upsurge of xenophobic and hate-filled public conduct in the United Kingdom requires an urgent response from people of faith.

As we share our feelings of dread and sadness in prayer, we ask God to lift us up to a place of gladness.

The Bible furnishes us with countless examples of servants of God whose initial query is, “How can this be?” So it was with Mary, so it is with us.

It is in Christ—in all things—that we learn to see the world anew.

Sometimes we face a praying slump. We just feel...dry, unproductive, and empty.

Often, God’s plan is underway well before we understand it.

There are many people who have gone before us, both in our biological and spiritual families, who have quietly and obscurely served God, loved others, and increased the amount of good in the world.

Pope Francis celebrates his 80th birthday with the homeless and reflects on the wisdom of getting older.

Whatever else the virgin birth may be, it doesn’t represent the domestication of the divine.

What, though, if we constructed a boundary between our time and God’s, and made time stop?