This week’s guest is Henry Timms, executive director of the 92nd Street Y and the founder of Giving Tuesday. “We started Giving Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday,” explains Mr. Timms, “to go from a national conversation about consumption to a national conversation about compassion.” Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable-giving season and asks […]
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Ideas
The secular world has turned Thanksgiving into madness.
We hear so much about how stringent the church is, how unreasonable in her strictures, how strict in her unreasonableness. But there is no institution so unforgiving as the secular world at this, the most wonderful time of the year.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Thanksgiving Prayer for Nearly Everyone
‘Now, I know I’m not the most grateful person you know, God, so let me take some time to tell you what I’m thankful for.’
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Getting older isn’t for the weak
The future demands faith. Either we summon it and nurture it, or fear will rule our final days.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Mary is there for you when your own mother isn’t.
Marge Fenelon talks about her book “Forgiving Mother: A Marian Novena of Healing and Peace.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Fear of Flying: Trying to Trust God at 30,000 Feet
I have been trying with all my heart—with all my mind, with all my soul, to live peaceably with a terror that has been grafted onto me.
Posted inFaith, Features
A retreat talk delivered by a Jesuit one year before his martyrdom
An abridged text of a retreat talk given by Juan Ramón Moreno, S.J., to members of the Christian Base Communities in Nicaragua in 1988, one year before his martyrdom.
Posted inFaith, Features
What it’s like going to church when you’re homeless
A church that can welcome homeless people only at their best will be a church where everybody fears to show their weaknesses.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Have you ever had the spiritual wind knocked out of you?
When the Spirit is knocked out of you, you understand that it was never really yours.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
10 years after fighting in Iraq, I have found healing in the Catholic Church
In Iraq, I witnessed death and tragedy, and without faith, I had no way to process it.