Spirituality
Something Is Wrong
To know you need help that you cannot somehow conjure up through your own power frees you. You have to turn from yourself to something outside yourself.
Mark of Belonging
A decade ago, who would have guessed that controversies about male circumcision would roil European countries and achieve resonance in the United States?
Poetry and the Contemplative Life
The term “contemplative life" is one that is much mistreated. It is more often used than defined, and that is why arguments about the respective merits...
Being Prepared for Joy
The poet discusses "accidental theologies," Gerard Manley Hopkins, faith in literature, and what it's like no longer being the editor of Poetry magazine.
Radical Amazement
The most profound experience of art, or of worship, or of serious desire, involves us in something that is not limited by our own perception.
An Unbelieving Age
That the death of God involves the death of Man is Christian doctrine, a fact of which Nietzsche seems not to have been aware.
Near Occasion
Many artists and writers, not necessarily religious, speak of the influence of religious language on their work.
Darwin’s Tree of Life
An exclusive excerpt from Elizabeth A. Johnson's forthcoming book, 'Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love.'
Seeing as God Sees
Karen Kilby, Luke Timothy Johnson, and Bernard G. Prusak reassess Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life.'
Sending the Wrong Signal
Many of us have adapted to our consumer culture—a culture in which affluence is morally innocent or even commendable. “More” is taken to be a universal aspiration.
‘I Do’ Undone
One always has to consider the cultural background of a vow. A vow made in our culture today means something different from one made in our culture fifty years ago.
'A Dire Part of My Life, My Faith'
Images, names, and circumstances make it clear that sacrament and mystery are vital to writer David Schickler's worldview.
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