Most writers walk a fine line between stealing from life and exploiting life.

“The function of prayer is not to influence God,” Kierkegaard said, “but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

Lent is not the time for hating my body or ignoring it or making it suffer for things that I have done, no matter what the voice of my eating disorder says.

A Jesuit finds God in the familiar on the Wisconsin Way

Jesus did not always tell people who he was; he told them to come and see for themselves. It is the same way the church spread in the early centuries: by attraction.

I have stopped praying for years at a time. I started praying again not because I think God wants me to but because prayer turns me into one kind of person and no prayer turns me into a different kind of person.