Q: You have written about Passover and Easter miracles, citing the plagues of Egypt, the splitting of the Red Sea, and (for Christians) the resurrection of Jesus. One might add that we witness small ...
Living near Peoria, Illinois, Bonnie Engstrom faced a new parent’s worst nightmare when she delivered her new son — with no signs of life. Doctors, including a neonatal specialist, were unable to get ...
I wrote for America over a year ago about my mystical experience reading Richard Powers’s The Overstory. Previously I had thought of trees as merely autonomous, but I learned that forests are ...
I’ve been asked this question many times since leaving the faith tradition of my childhood, but I have yet to answer it in a way that feels honest and complete. This is partly because the question isn ...
‘God was in love, but he could not keep the secret,’ said Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. ‘The telling of it was creation.’ Giovanni di Paolo, “The Creation of the World and the Expulsion From Paradise,” ...
When he first started learning about God during his days in Hebrew school, Simon Rich was truly frightened by what he was reading. It wasn’t that whole “wrath of God” thing that kept him up at night.
Worshippers and billions of others across the world who watched the Day 1 of the Healing Streams by Pastor Chris were all ...
The young nun radiates innocence and purity. Her smile is a glimpse of heaven, and she sings in a beautiful, unearthly voice. She has visions; stigmata bloom in her palms. She also stands accused of a ...
If we can’t admit that, we won’t make much headway. With this essay, I will stop introducing chapters of the book that will come out in the spring, When Did We Forget God? (Tyndale). The essays I’ve ...
" 'You either try to walk out or you're gonna sit here and die,' " Ron Dailey recalled thinking to himself before he searched ...