I got lost in a maze of darkness and could not get out. Christ is like the great hero, rushing into the cold and dark to save us.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’ve visited over 100 churches across the globe. Here’s what it’s taught me about my Catholic faith.
There is great comfort in knowing that in each church there were people worshiping the same God, hearing the same Gospel, striving to live out the two greatest commandments.
Posted inFaith, Video
‘Think Like a Jesuit’: The new video series that takes an Ignatian approach to uncomfortable conversations
Disagreement gets a bad rap nowadays. Why?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Community, humanity, surrender: 3 reasons why we need to go back to the movie theaters
Every movie is like a pilgrimage. It invites us into a journey with the promise of some holy destination, and a good one calls us to an appreciation of community.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
To find God’s revelation, one can turn to music
Can a song save your life? Can a canticle change your life, fundamentally alter its course?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Take me out to the ballgame: The majesty (and agony) of playoff baseball
Live baseball is more sublime and spiritually satisfying than any other sporting event—even when your team loses.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
What Mariah Carey’s ‘Butterfly’ has to say to children of divorce
Listening to the album anew, I can see how Carey’s songs shed light on the spiritual and psychological struggles of children of divorce (like Mariah Carey and I).
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A master class in Christian apologetics for the 21st century
Roger Haight’s latest book is a master class in Christian apologetics. Haight’s study rises from pointed questions put to the believer, questions that cannot be ignored or wished away.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The spiritual depths of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison’s fiction conveyed much of the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience—which is why it makes some white readers uncomfortable.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Remembering Father Albert Nolan, a best-selling theologian who explored the humanity of Christ
Father Nolan sought during his tenure to help white Catholic students find a way of working with their Black colleagues for the common goal of ending apartheid.