When Diplomacy Becomes Prophecy: The Perils of Invoking History’s Darkest Chapter In the charged atmosphere before Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year when tradition…
What the Shofar and the Mercator Map Have in Common The earth is round; the map is flat. As the story of Gerardus Mercator —…
When Liturgy Becomes a Mirror: Brazil’s Grassroots Creed and the Question of Who Speaks for the Church The Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady…
The Sacred Wound: What an Abuser’s Earliest Act of Control Reveals About Spiritual Boundaries In a recent reflection on healing from abuse, a counselor describes…
When Sacred Lore Becomes Pop Culture: The Quileute Struggle for Higher Ground For the Quileute people of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Twilight Saga brought the…
When the Tower Fell, a Shepherd’s Psalm Remained On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Paul Carris attended 8 a.m. Mass at a small chapel…
The Quiet General and the Politics of Truth: What Eisenkot’s Rise Reveals About Israel’s Soul In an age of political theater, where charisma often outweighs…
When Medicine Meets Mortality: The Trisomy 18 Debate and the Ethics of Certainty The case of Kate Cox, a Texas mother whose preborn daughter was…
When the Towers Fell: What the Pentagon’s 9/11 Survivors Teach Us About Memory as Sacred Practice Twenty-five years after American Airlines Flight 77 struck the…
When Sacred Lands Meet Rising Tides: The Quileute Nation’s Spiritual Reckoning The Quileute people have long understood something the wider world is only beginning to…