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Once, when my wife, Gail, and I were hiking the high meadows of the Swiss Alps, we saw two farmers cutting the high-standing mountain grasses with scythes, a hand-mowing tool [...]

Recently I have been drawn to the word deep as a descriptor when I speak of mature Christians. My earliest appreciation for the term came when I read a comment [...]

As a Christian leader, I am grieved by statistics indicating that believers and non-believers live almost identical lives: similar sexual ethics, spending patterns, and lifestyle choices. Despite spending millions of [...]

A man I'll call Paul (because that's actually his name) told me he recently started going to church. In his mid-seventies, with no faith background, he woke up one morning [...]

Believe it or not, sales professionals are becoming more spiritual, searching for more than a fat commission check from their jobs Pay attention when you stroll by the water cooler. […]

The prophet Jeremiah launches this week's haftorah with a poignant question. Channeling God's voice, he asks, 'What wrong did your forefathers find in Me, that they distanced themselves from Me, [...]

As the institutional church becomes more and more reactionary in its teachings and the faithful in the United States become increasingly more liberal, the connection that Catholics feel to their [...]

Formation numbers are up in the U.S. for the Salvatorians, the Catholic religious community also known as the Society of the Divine Savior. The Salvatorians' U.S. province, based in Milwaukee, [...]

The first year a vintner plants shoots of vines rather than seeds because these yield the strongest vines. At the end of the first growing season, he cuts them back. [...]

I'm delighted about the resurgence of the gospel in so many churches. We are regaining the idea that the gospel is not only for those outside the church but also [...]

I'm from the Northeast, a part of the U.S. where roads and highways are generally named for what they are: The Mass Turnpike, The New York State Thruway, The Long [...]

I once assumed the gospel was simply what non-Christians must believe in order to be saved, while afterward we advance to deeper theological waters. But I've come to realize that [...]