We must intentionally live and act in hope in order to move into the unknown.
Faith
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I went on a date in college for extra credit. What it taught me about love and worthiness was priceless.
The assignment came with a long list of rules: Don’t ask somebody else in the class. You have to ask in person. You ask, you pay.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The attacks on Senator-elect Warnock’s faith and our nation’s Capitol reveal an ugly truth about white religion
The white Trump supporters who desecrated the U.S. Capitol proved Rev. Warnock’s point. One cannot serve both God and whiteness.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben named as first woman to serve as House chaplain, replacing Pat Conroy, S.J.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi commended Kibben for her integrity and patriotism and thanked Father Conroy for his service.
Posted inFaith, Features
This is Your Soul on Mysticism
What Julian of Norwich can teach us about oneness with God.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Americans equate beauty with youth. That’s no way to build a country.
In this country, we value youth but we don’t value beauty, mainly because we think they are the same thing. But beauty is related to memory in a way youth cannot be.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Yaa Gyasi’s fully human characters
Come to Yaa Gyasi’s fiction, all you who are weary and burdened, and she will give you heartbreak.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Marilynne Robinson returns to Gilead
Those familiar with the Gilead story will find in Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel another beautiful meditation on grace operative in spite of habits of despair and the social sins that feed them.
Posted inFaith, Features
A Jesuit guide to pandemic ministry
Does canceling the sacraments show a lack of faith? Jesuits in the 16th century didn’t think so.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What the church could learn from two YouTubers losing their faith
Christian communities can criticize and resist current trends toward faith deconstruction, but they may only succeed in pushing more people out into the wilderness where they are less likely to find the life-giving waters for which they thirst.