For many people, prayer is a private matter. Most of us prefer to pray alone and often squirm uncomfortably when someone suggests saying grace in a public ...

"What does the idea of sacrifice mean to you?"

So Heath Ledger passed away a few weeks ago, the final outcome of a long struggle with depression, substances, and wild living. While the thousands dying of starvation and ...

My husband isn't speaking to me. He isn't speaking to anyone, really. He's crushed by the Patriots defeat in last night's SuperBowl. I'm not that chatty either, but not because I ...

For many young women, their sense of Mary, mother of Jesus, is relatively one-dimensional. They recall a humble, pious woman who was submissive to both her husband and her God. Or she's the woman in ...

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood literally starts off with a thud. Only a few minutes into the film, set in late 19th and early 20th century ...

"Did you make any resolutions regarding your spiritual, religious or faith life this year?"

Are there any songs that you feel a spiritual connection to?

Jane Wyman was buried in a Dominican habit. Bet you didn’t catch that fact in your local paper. For lazy obituary writers, she was Ronald Reagan’s first wife, earning the notoriety ...

Do you remember the story of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams dying on the same day: July 4, 1826? For film enthusiasts, a similar kind of cultural synchronicity was evoked by ...

If there's one story everyone knows, it's "A Christmas Carol." The saga of the miraculous overnight transformation of the world's meanest man into a grateful, humble, compassionate human ...

It's a Wonderful Life, is a great story, and I hope yours is a Bedford Falls kind ...

On the morning of September 11, 2001 French filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet—who had been working for three months on a documentary on firemen—found themselves filming inside the ...

"Have you ever dated someone outside of your own personal faith, and if so, what were the challenges?"

Who is God? Is he the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful being of Judeo-Christian thought? Or might he be something less ultimate, more vulnerable? Might he even need our help? And ...

Most people respond to the approach of Christmas with a happy blizzard of activity. They lick stamps and fix them to final flurries of Christmas cards. They bake. They ...

The Maccabees didn't stand a chance against the catalogs that began to appear in in mid-November. Our children, Jonah and Maia, began to look through them as a ...

Is there anything funny about a sixteen year old girl getting pregnant? Actually, there's quite a bit in the new film Juno. A smart and smart-mouthed Minnesota teen named ...

This year will be different. That's the promise many of us make to ourselves just after Thanksgiving each year. We make silent oaths that we won't spend too ...