Three candles burn now: hope, peace, and joy. Next week, we turn toward love, the culmination of everything Advent builds.

This period, known as Emmanuel or "God with us," shifts the focus from anticipation to presence. Five candles burn on the ...

Numerous studies have shown that spirituality can help improve quality of life for people with chronic diseases like cancer. According to a literature review published today in JACC Heart Failure, ...

The study is the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis to date of scientific literature on health and spirituality. Overlooking spirituality in health care leaves patients feeling disconnected from ...

Think of 2025 as a teacher who noticed things about you that you were too busy to see. Be curious not judgmental.

This January, I tried something different. Instead of listing goals, I asked myself: If 2026 were a chapter in my life story, ...

"At least you got pregnant! What a blessing!" As I digested these words from a well-meaning acquaintance, I wanted to spit them out immediately. I had just suffered a miscarriage, and in the midst of ...

What to do when, in the words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “All that is solid melts into air?” Times of upheaval inspire a search for alternative understandings of reality. This was as true a ...

For generations, Black women have navigated a fraught relationship with religion. And for good reason — they've had to contend with purity culture, sexism, and the overall erasure of their unique ...

The expectation that modernity would lead to the decline of religion has proven to be a myth. For decades, sociologists like Peter Berger predicted that the advance of science and modernization would ...

No phones, no Facebook, no Amazon, no Netflix. When Fr. Josh Mayer entered St. John Vianney's Seminary in Denver, his first year looked a little more monk-like than what some might expect. "It had to ...

Oprah Winfrey speaks publicly about her daily spiritual practice—including starting the day with thoughts of gratitude. Arianna Huffington sets intentions for the day and meditates for 30 minutes. And ...