Try as you might to prepare or avoid it, the searing, devastating pain of grief is going to find you at several points in your life and you will be changed by it. But for the length of time it takes to read this interview, set aside what... Read More

What makes a place holy? You do. Holy is wholly personal. This week, Lori Erickson reminds us of this sacred truth. She points to the Celts who believed there are places where the veil between our world and the spiritual world is thin.... Read More

Our homo sapien habit of putting a human lens on the motivations and characteristics of other beings—anthropomorphizing—takes a strange twist in the case of Jesus, where the opposite happened. For hundreds and hundreds of years, his... Read More

Italy is IT. (No, not its acronym, silly.) Italy is IT!—most marvelous of Mediterranean marvels, spellcaster of bewitchment since the Phoenician days, followed by Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, Angevins, and Aragonese, all of whom... Read More

Just like your annual block party and the housewarming gift you offered the new homeowner next door, getting to know the many fascinating objects in our celestial neighborhood is only the neighborly thing to do. Indeed, every quick... Read More

A couple days ago in Montreal, 190 countries agreed to protect thirty percent of our planet’s land and oceans within seven years. That’s a big deal! The NYTimes reports that the agreement also included a “slew of other measures... Read More

Mother, mother moon is a little miffed with us: After all I do to make Earth a fertile, enchanting place for mankind, you barely pay me any attention. Only one brief visit in more than fifty years … you ought to be ashamed. Perhaps,... Read More

The recent bombshell report detailing decades of sex abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention is nearly a copycat to the many lurid investigations into the Catholic Church. The abuse and subsequent coverup by the leadership of both... Read More