St. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) has gone down in Christian history as a philosopher, mystic, and leader at a time when such ...

Alea Peister is a copywriter at a marketing firm. She recently received her MFA in spiritual writing from Seattle ...

Powered Divine Chats.” Options include “Text Jesus,” which allows you to chat with the members of the Holy Family, each of ...

I was taught to stay on guard against the left’s postmodernism. Now it’s the right that seems unwilling to look truth ...

I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t ...

The second season of Shiny Happy People reminds me of my year as a Teen Mania intern—and our efforts to become the standard ...

Wilkinson’s book—completed shortly before his death in 2023—is a response to a 2013 request from Billy Frank Jr. (Nisqually), ...

There’s a time to be silent and a time to speak. I want to say something to my Jewish friends and family, in grief and ...

Father William Hart McNichols (he/him) is widely known as one of the world’s most gifted iconographers. A former Jesuit and student of Franciscan iconographer Robert Lentz, Fr. Bill’s icons have been ...

Remembering WalterJason Edwards’s eulogy of Walter Brueggemann was eloquent and profound—almost good enough for Walter (“Walter Brueggemann’s gift of disruption,” August).—Terree NewberryGray, ...

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