No one ever claimed that God was tangible, like a rock or a tree. Gravity isn't tangible, either, but once the human mind decided to look for it, gravity became evident.
The divine plan doesn't require vegetarianism or the abolition of meat, but factory farming isn't a good practice and our addiction to meat only complicates things.
A friend recently told me that a parent is only as happy as their least happy child. Imagine when that child is chronically ill.
Significant events in your life, including significant choices you make about how you behave, create new information pathways and patterns within your brain.
By CATHLEEN FALSANI Religion News Service SALIMA, Malawi (RNS) For the better part of a month now on my most recent African sojourn, I haven't been d...
Here's a video of my interview with the Washington Post on Glenn Beck and the importance of social justice.
Faith and spirituality can be powerful sources of strength, happiness and meaning. It may be, however, that no amount of prayer or faith can help you get out of a depression.
Oprah said it, and it was true: What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain. Equally ...
A couple months ago, I shared with you the story of the Kelly family, told to me in a very candid, vulnerable and open interview with Jilly Kelly, wif...
The road to recovery for any addict--whether we are speaking of an individual or a nation--happens one day at a time.
Virtue can, and should, be fostered by all of us and practiced again and again and again, like weight lifting, until it feels like our second nature.
She fought it for awhile -- the feelings, the memories, reluctant to relive the heartache that seemed unbearable the first time around.
I grew up in a very faithful household -- my father was an Episcopal priest and I was devoutly devout, an altar boy from age six and happy for it.
Given the magnitude of the crisis in the clergy, asking the hard questions to ferret out prospective sexual abusers is a necessity.
For the survivors it was the initial primeval instinct for life that shocked stopped hearts into beating. Haiti has had a massive coronary and, collectively damaged, is operating at a fraction of its normal output.
One wonders what effect the discovery of an ark might have on rationalists who have thrown the Bible out with the floodwater.
Do you get so busy during the day that you do not take a moment to receive, to be aware of, the good around you? Do you ever pause to take in the beauty of flowers?
Correction: Newsmax's cover story "The Jesus Question" is from April 2009. The editors of Newsmax might be getting a little impatient for the second...
As a Christian, you can support choice politically and for those children that are already here you can choose to be a pro-life advocate for them to live life abundantly.
People are designed to relate in the richest possible terms to the divine -- to God, The Universal Mind, The Big Picture, The Greater Good, the Spirit in the Sky, etc.
Now, for the first time in my life, there is a level of fear for me attached with being -- and looking -- Latina. A few times now I have returned home during the day after realizing that I didn't have my U.S. passport on me.
If God created - or continues to create - the world, then what could be more sacred than healing God's most intelligent creatures? Health care reform works hand in hand with the God I believe in.
While it may not be true that those without a faith need one, it is demonstrably true that people of faith must have questions and doubts. Otherwise their faith becomes a static, lifeless, self-serving doctrine.
With no scriptural or theological arguments to fall back upon, Glenn Beck has decided that his only option is to try to destroy Rev. Wallis' personal reputation. FOX News should be held accountable.
If our political leaders won't make room for the "strangers" among us, we, the people of faith, will. It's time to stop playing politics with people's lives.
