On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and 50 others were charged with violating a court order against mass demonstrations. He was arrested and taken to the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where ...

Still, the menagerie around the manger reflects the Franciscan vision—there is a donkey and ox, as in Greccio, along with a ...

Here we are again in an old and familiar place. There is nothing new about lethal police brutality against Black civilians, except that this time it was the life of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols that was ...

The setting by the lake was beautiful. The people were beautiful, the food was beautiful, and we were in a beautiful restaurant surrounded by beautiful things. I felt completely comfortable. I felt ...

Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we can build beloved community simply by showing up for one another. The promise of what Sharon ...

If we’re honest with ourselves, to be alive is to be vulnerable. It’s inextricably part of being human. We’re born naked and ...

Pope Francis’s plan to build an eco-village in the historic gardens of Castel Gandolfo, the summer residence of the popes, ...

In 1973, scholar and Jesuit priest Michel de Certeau wrote that he was “feeling the Christian ground on which I thought I was walking disappear, seeing the messengers of an ending, long time under way ...

It’s hard not to feel complicit when we contemplate our next grocery run. The convenient items and ingredients for our favorite dishes are paid for with an unfathomable price. The produce section’s ...

Marjorie Maddox’s impressive new poetry collection suggests by its title that the reader is embarking on a journey. Maddox, who has produced 13 books of luminous poetry and teaches at Lock Haven ...

I recently attended a dynamic workshop for administrators in higher education, facili­tated by a psychologist. I confess that I went reluctantly, exhausted by a full academic year during a global ...

I could hear the piano playing and people singing—especially the majority-male voices that were louder and carried farther than the female ones. As a newly employed assistant professor of religion, I ...