Life of Faith
A worship practice Zoom can’t replicate
Silence, in the Christian tradition, is a shared discipline as much as an individual one.
A manifesto for middle age
Kaya Oakes seeks the wisdom of women who are young, old, crazy, barren, butch, femme, angry, other, and alone
Giving and receiving care are what we’re made for
Arthur Kleinman’s memoir gets at the heart of what it means to be human.
St. Dymphna and her legacy of care
How the patron saint of mental illness has shown up in my brother’s life
Saumya Roy lets Mumbai’s garbage pickers speak for themselves
Castaway Mountain gives voice to families who have been impoverished by the whims of the powerful.
Unorthodox and the captivity narrative tradition to which it belongs
To find an authentic life, do you have to lose your religion?
The religious door-knockers are back
These days I’m receiving them with a kinder heart.
The historical roots of interfaith dialogue
Tal Howard offers a carefully researched history, from the Mughal Empire to Nostra aetate and beyond.
An Omicron Christmas
I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.
Stories of the unhoused faithful
Listening to the poorest and most dislocated, Susan J. Dunlap hears the music of faith.
A new translation of “The Dark Night of the Soul” thrills with adventure
In St. John of the Cross’s poetry, the dark night is also a night of profound, even ecstatic beauty.
Sacred wrestling with the Bible’s “harsh passages”
That God would fight for Israel is meant to elicit horror.
How should I pray for the climate?
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
Reckoning with our messiah complexes
The vulnerability of the newborn Christ challenges our inclination to play God.
An American teenager in Slovakia
How a year overseas unraveled and remade Sarah Hinlicky Wilson’s identity
The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again
So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?
Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton
Who do I pay attention to who may be prophetically controversial today?