He put a face to a God who was, before Jesus arrived, incorporeal, beyond human senses and human comprehension. In the words ...

Christmas reveals God's cosmic plan through Christ's incarnation, as Paul describes -- the pivotal moment when creation's hopes found new meaning.

Christmas did not begin in Bethlehem. If we imagine the story starting only with Mary, Joseph, shepherds, and a manger, we ...

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and ...

There’s a transcendent story — a philosophical story, a cosmic story, a moral story — in Christmas that we sometimes fail to remember. Even in religious circles, it easily gets lost among the tales of ...

I remember reading stories in the Bible in which Jesus corrects his followers when they are keeping children from coming to ...

In Resident Aliens, Stanley Hauerwas and I warned that seminary biblical courses sometimes disempower budding preachers: See? You’ll never have the linguistic, analytical, or historical skills to ...

MARY’S perpetual virginity is one of the four Marian dogmas that Catholics must accept and believe, along with her as Mother ...

So, is President Trump going to heaven? That question, rightly understood, is above any columnist’s pay grade. “Judge not, that you be not judged.” What can be said — about him and about all of us — ...