The Flower That Falls Before It Blooms: A Nun’s Teaching on Impermanence In Buddhist practice, the contemplation of death is not morbid but liberating. Sister…
When Faith Enters the Voting Booth: Virginia’s Catholic Bishops and the Battle Over Constitutional Language The intersection of religious conviction and civic governance has rarely…
The Seafloor Is Sacred: What Guam’s Fight Reveals About Extraction and Consent When Governor Lou Leon Guerrero of Guam learned that the U.S. government planned…
Ranked Choice Voting and the Spiritual Test of Collective Trust In Alaska, the machinery of democracy has become a mirror for something deeper: how a…
When a Funeral Becomes a Liturgy of Forgetting The Serbian Orthodox Church’s decision to preside over the burial of Ratko Mladić, convicted of genocide at…
The Confessional Booth in Your Pocket: What We Surrender When Machines Listen Nearly one in ten American adults now brings life’s heaviest questions to artificial…
The Book as Witness: Why Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’ Still Tests a Society’s Soul When a public official in Texas moved to purge thousands of titles…
An “Imperfect Vessel” at the Altar: What One Bishop’s Consecration Reveals About Interfaith Inheritance The Episcopal Church’s 237-year history reached a new threshold this month…
The Smudged Chimney: Why Mental Wellness Is a Practice, Not a Gift In Nichiren Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra’s sixteenth chapter teaches that the Buddha’s presence…
When Technology Promises Life: The Moral Reckoning of the Fertility Industry The recent revelation that a reclusive Chinese billionaire fathered as many as 100 children…