On a casual walk through the Main Quad, one can expect to see RSO fundraisers, friends throwing around a Frisbee and one too many squirrels. About once a month, students might also expect to run into ...

For years I boasted to our congregation that I only preached on stewardship once annually. When that dreaded sermon came, I apologized at the beginning: “If you’re visiting with us today, please ...

Several Alabama pastors preaching on the Sunday before Christmas focused on the tradition of gift-giving and symbols of the season in their messages. “When we give gifts, it’s because God gave a gift, ...

Every now and then, you deliver a sermon that when you leave the lectern you haven’t the foggiest idea how those words you just preached landed with those sitting in the pews. It happens to all of us ...

For most of his life, Frank Robert was like many churchgoers who came of age in the United States in the 20th century: It was routine to drop a check or a few bills in the collection plate every ...

"If you felt God’s Holy Spirit surrounding you in ways you haven’t felt in years, would you have a sense that might be ...

One of the hardest discernments in both life and religion is how to balance justice and mercy. This quandary is expressed many ways; a choice between law and leniency, letter and spirit, a hard heart ...

Pope Leo XIV began his first papal trip speaking of dialogue, peace and thanksgiving -- referring to both the holiday and his ...