Like the surveillance state, the Christ Pantocrator icon asserts an omnipresent authority. But it also asserts divine mercy ...

We fell asleep reciting modest prayers.No one would ask for our deliveranceOutright, to have the age-old mortal plotUpended ...

Richard Rohr begs readers to journey from anger to sadness to compassionate love.

Since Muslim Americans vocally opposed President Joe Biden’s embrace of Israel after the October 7 Hamas attacks, who they ...

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Theologian Robert Cady Saler considers Death to the World, an Eastern Orthodox movement that is both thoroughly Christian and ...

I celebrate the milestone of the first woman to become archbishop of Canterbury. But I worry there’s a glass cliff waiting ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats joined faith leaders on Thursday to pray and speak against the ...

In Robert Baird’s debut novel, a religion scholar’s young son starts emitting a holy glow that might or might not ...

My friend Eric Peterson invited me to write here for the week. This is the study where his father, Eugene, wrote books. I ...

Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer–winning novel speaks unflinchingly of God, grace, sacred luminosity, and humility. This reads a ...