19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

The most religious people are also statistically the most likely to place their faith in artificial life support. Why?

You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes.

There’s a connection between a desire to care and the offer of food. We’re committed to each other’s survival.

It’s a practice marked by promise and difficulty—both in the Bible and today.

What does it look like to be angry without sinning?

We need to wrestle with the meaning of Jesus’ flesh as bread, bread we are to consume.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Wind.”

Psalm 130 fits so many ways.

This psalm is hard to take.

Hip-hop’s origins go back farther than the 1970s.

David, Absalom, and the dangers of “hanging between heaven and earth”

Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “dirt.”

It’s been quite a week for the prophet of God.

People must have gasped when Jesus opened his mouth and said 'I am.'

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied a meal at a Virginia restaurant. I wonder who's welcome at our table.

“I look on my faith as a liberation.”

How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?

Robert Barron’s grasp of the complex development of David’s character in 2 Samuel is unsurpassed. And his references to history and literature are more than adornment.