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An Omicron Christmas
Stories of the unhoused faithful
A new translation of “The Dark Night of the Soul” thrills with adventure
Sacred wrestling with the Bible’s “harsh passages”
How should I pray for the climate?
Reckoning with our messiah complexes
An American teenager in Slovakia
The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again
Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton
’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies
December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14)
Don’t tell my Pentecostal mom, but I pray the Hail Mary
The White Iowans and Latino and African migrants of the meatpacking industry
The human moments of pastoral care
Some trees are like mothers