While it’s easy to get discouraged, pull over, and call for a ride home, I’m reminded to just keep pedaling.

Our fervent first-time parent efforts were rewarded when our daughter said her first word, not spoken aloud, but signed in Baby ASL with her hands.

John projected his own doubts onto his friend “The Twin” and branded him alone among all twelve apostles.

Despite biblical stories of holy wars, populations decimated, and heads served on platters, the community of faith to which I belonged seemed to take it

Beginning in the nineteenth century, another very different wave of Americans swept into the region. Christian missionaries brought a very different message to the Muslim

This semester, I’ve been teaching my beloved Dante again as I prepare with my students to go on our own pilgrimage to Italy. Monday night

In that moment, something unsettling settled in my chest. I began to wonder: Is there something wrong with me?

The thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond

Since the guards “shook and became like dead men,” our risen Lord could have walked right past them without a problem, and it would be

Feeling that sense of wonder is a great way to find respite and renewal from the stress of life and our current moment.

The truth is that the Judean leaders and Roman officers who connived in Our Lord’s death were not especially vicious and no worse than anyone