Over the years, I did meet the moment sometimes, but certainly not always. When I examine my conscience, my missteps are nearly all related to a lack of patience. I’ve wanted our children to behave in ...

Molly McNett’s 'Child of These Tears' displays the difficulties of translation, the irreducibility of meaning, and the frustrating limitations of human nature and society.

When William R. Burrows died last week, many a theologian and missionary remembered him as an important voice—and a valuable intellectual support for many decades—for his work in publishing and ...

We believers cannot answer our own questions, at least not to our satisfaction. But we equally cannot stop asking those questions, and that is what makes life worth living.

What does joy mean when life contradicts it? In the Christian context, it is a "crucified joy," on that does not deny ...

Two people meet at a well, looking for water. One is tasked to return regularly; the other arrives in a moment of need. They come from two different worlds, which is why this encounter will change the ...

This Sunday’s first reading from Genesis narrates the call of Abram. God summons this great Hebrew patriarch to leave his land, family, and culture and to take up life in a land he does not know.

Gayle Feldman’s new biography of Bennett Cerf, 'Nothing Random,' is a window into the past of American literary culture.

Pope Leo XIV again called for a stop to “the thunderous sound of bombs” in Iran and the Middle East, for the guns to “fall ...

A coffin is carried during the funeral of mostly children killed in what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike Feb. 28 at a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026.

It seems at times as if America is a “twilight kingdom,” in the words of T. S. Eliot, in “this valley of dying stars.” Too ...

The Trump administration wants to reverse fair-lending laws; the Fed's rate setters will do exactly what they've already told ...