God never tries to overwhelm us. More than anyone else, God respects our freedom. God lies everywhere, inside us and around ...

In 1961, weeks after graduating from high school, James Finley rose one morning before dawn and left a note. In defiance of his father, who had refused to allow him to leave, he boarded a bus for the ...

I had a hard time coming up with a theme for this column, but then, while fixing lunch, I got, “God’s Presence.” So let’s talk about this and see if ...

Have you ever felt like God was distant? Unapproachable? A study in contrasts might help. There are many distinctions between the realities of life with God in the Old Testament and the New. Consider ...

My grandmother, Priva Hershkowitz, z”l, was freed from Auschwitz by the Red Army. Not much remained of her body, but her great soul illuminated faith in God and man and rebuilt a Jewish home in Israel ...

Do you want to live a more conscious and purposeful life? Chakras are linked to ancient spiritual traditions believed to enhance physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. If used in the right way, ...

Raised Presbyterian, neuroscientist John C. Wathey started to question his religious faith in his early teens. His book, The Illusion of God’s Presence: The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing ...

Christmas is a time when we ritually remember that we are the recipients of God’s abundant love, and in our rituals, we attempt to reflect God’s abundance: More gifts! More lights! A bigger tree!

In an effort to show what Scripture tells us about "the beyond," often obscured by a society that leans toward darkness, Fr. Mark Haydu has published a new book exploring the depiction of angels in ...