With the exception of a few prophetic voices like Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde of Washington, D.C., and Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, most Christian leaders have remained cowardly ...

For our brother LouWe always knew we would lose you.The youngest child in a gaggle of cousins,at two you wandered down the beach,I am the Boss embossed on the bottomof your toddler-size bathing ...

JohnThe tree bore fruit for one summer only.A cluster of kumquats grew like a tumor in the heart;the branches couldn’t hold more than one year’s yield,each fruit as orange as the last morningI held my ...

But often it’s through unexpected juxtapositions that Monteiro evokes life’s mysteries. So, for instance, the poem “Solomon ...

God sends manna because God cares for the human needs, because God’s love matters for our lives. To talk about care is to get ...

For years, conservative legal groups have argued that an IRS rule barring churches from endorsing candidates was ...

Open heartsI read Peter Marty’s column about Eden Murphy, a teenager born with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with an ache in ...

At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm ...

A gay grandad with stage four cancer has been fined thousands of dollars for taking part in a trans rights protest. Known ...

As Shaylynn Bird danced across the arena under the hot midwestern summer sun, the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara and Oglala Lakota woman began to feel off.Bird, who once won a 76-song iron woman competition ...

On the Piazza della Signoria,under the gaze of Michelangelo’s David(a decent copy rather), among the crowds,a horse-drawn carriage or two, afternoon sunassaulting the air, an English bulldog madehis ...

As a Christian, I don't think you can be both MAGA and Christian,” one person wrote in the comments of the video.