As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...

As we approach Pentecost during the first year of the three-year-plus Eucharistic Revival revivifying the Church in the United States, it’s fitting to deepen our awareness and appreciation for the ...

Traditional language about Christian spiritual formation has long been shaped by the impulse to imitate Jesus, a call we hear ringing in Paul’s exhortation to “be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” ...

What Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, and Sojourner Truth taught me about God’s “withness.” A Methodist woman in Albany, New York, didn’t want to go hear Zilpha Elaw preach. For one thing, Elaw was a woman, ...

We talk about how we never want to be lukewarm “In Christ.” We know that disgusts Jesus. In Revelation, it says He will spew us out of His mouth. It makes me think He wants to vomit. You see when we ...

The Trinity — the Life of God himself — is a mystery, as no doubt many a homily today will declare. That’s true: we can and never will penetrate that reality, even if our hope is fulfilled, we are ...

Pope Francis listens as an aide reads excerpts from "Spes Non Confundit," ("Hope Does Not Disappoint"), his document proclaiming the Holy Year 2025, during a ceremony in front of the Holy Door of St.

"My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working"--Jesus (John 5:17). I have been thrilled to see the Asbury University revival spark chatter on a national level in the last ...

CAIRO (AP) — Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts. For Muslims, it’s a time of increased ...