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If you want an actual model for receiving the guidance of the holy spirit, look...

The Greek word, eucharistia, from which we get the English word, eucharist—the breaking of bread...

For now, today, to get a sense of this scene, imagine walking into synagogue on...

Less than one percent of your day given to contemplation. And that less-than-one-percent will reorient...

I think too often Christians believe the holy spirit begins its best work when the...

The Bible doesn’t excise the ambiguity from life, not even when its stories are about...

The Hebrew word ruach opens a world of mystery, a vista of possibilities that encompass...

Sometimes we feel the chaos deeper still. Clench at the stab of sickness. Stand, shaken,...

Are the people of Syria so destitute, so cornered by chemical weapons, so oppressed that...

Kids should be relentless—not behaviorally modified to relent, to give ground, to concede and cave....

Ask yourself what loving God with “your whole heart” means, and you may come up...

There we were, together, a white twelve-year-old boy with an utter incapacity to sing the...

Good sex is a matter of discipline, which can’t start early enough because, hope as...

People in the grip of poverty can pray—and grasp—the Lord’s prayer, especially the line, “Give...

In Resurrection Year, author Sheridan Voysey nails it on the head when he writes, “childlessness...

It’s been twenty-five years, and words spoken after our first miscarriage still rankle. People didn’t...

Introduce regularity to your spirituality, and your brain, given its plasticity, can become more serene...

When my daughter Chloe was a couple of years old, she’d climb onto my lap,...

It dawned upon me on Friday night, as I sat anonymously, or nearly so, in...

They’re still teenagers, still prone to gruffness and grumpiness—but for several hours a week, they...

They’re formulas, after all—not prophylactics that protect us from death, ignorance, pain, and evil.

My wife, Priscilla Pope-Levison, whose book Building the Old Time Religion will be out this...

So what are we left with this ordinary Pentecost Sunday? Wait together, pray together, study...

Utter abandon and utter clarity. What a thrill, to feel God so deeply and to...

I’m writing for the survivors, scarred (scared, too) people who keep swimming, the relentlessly faithful,...