Can you feel it? That twinge in your heart only Autumn can bring. Maybe it’s the changing colors, the muted light, or the smell of burning leaves that at the same time conjures up the nostalgia of…

Recently, members from a local church were canvassing my (Gary Alan’s) neighborhood, handing out tracts and inviting people to church. Under normal circumstances, such uninvited evangelistic tactics feel…

“The Ghent Altarpiece,” completed in 1432 by brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, is considered the first if not finest Renaissance masterpiece. Standing before it, the eye is drawn to the painting’s focal point: a mystical…

Life has become strange, different, and, in some ways, unrecognizable since the pandemic struck. Have you felt it? With most of us staying home and telecommuting instead of physically commuting, it almost seems…

In a 13th-century church in the small village of Stinsford in southwest England resides the Hardy Memorial Window, a stained-glass work of art that depicts…

In your spiritual journey, when have you most deeply encountered or felt the divine? How did you know or understand what you were experiencing? For me (Melanie), the times…

In 1638, Gregorio Allegri composed a rendition of Psalm 51 to be sung during Holy Week at Vatican City. The song, Miserere Mei, is arguably the most beautiful piece of music ever written. It was deemed so sacred…

Question: How do you wait? Think about that for a second. When you don’t have that answer you’ve been waiting for or you’re not sure of what to do next, what do you do? Speaking as …

Nestled quietly on a side street in the bustling London borough of Southwark sits the Oratory of St. Alphege, a nondescript monastic community where three…

I no longer believe in the god most of my Christian friends and family worship. You know the one I’m talking about. The god of American civil religion. The god who…

“To ask for forgiveness is to die a small death. Yes. And I suppose humility is a small death too, the death of supremacy. Trust is a small death…”