Easter is a liturgical time when we celebrate the Resurrection of the One who "makes all things new" and anticipate the descent of the Holy ...

Politically speaking, what's up with young evangelicals? Evangelicals are 26 percent of the U.S. population, a quarter of them under 30, and, as the ...

I can still remember the feeling of numbness that hit me when I hung up the phone one afternoon last September. I’d been slated to ...

One of the first and key places I encountered the spiritual ideas that eventually led to my baptism was Estes Park, high in the Rockies, ...

“I am Trayvon Martin!” This has been the rallying cry of so ...

I have a confession to make. I am horrible at fasting. Epically horrible. My Lenten fast usually devolves into me eating precisely that from which ...

It was all of 13 minutes after midnight on Tuesday night when I went to look up something in Wikipedia... even though I knew the ...

Since I wrote for Busted Halo about Mitt Romney's first run for president in 2008, much has changed in the public landscape regarding knowledge ...

Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. If you're Joy Brooks, every day is a chance to raise awareness about the horror of modern-day slavery and ...

When I learned of Osama bin Laden's death, my immediate reaction was indifference. I didn't share the jubilant response that seemed to be sweeping the ...

At 13, I walked the halls of my middle school proudly as the smart Egyptian girl who brought in stuffed grape leaves for lunch and ...

In that cosmically complex and fun butterfly effect way of looking at the world, we may never have been born if it wasn't for Thomas Merton, the world's most prominent Catholic monk and prolific author. ...

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) Lately I’ve been thinking about the Beatitudes, as well as ...

Steve Jobs was never a corporate man. The early personal computer industry was an outgrowth of the radical back-to-the-land ethos and even the name "Apple" ...

As the year draws to a close, we're reminded of many significant endings in 2011. Here's a short list of what got our (and the ...

My relatives are an eclectic bunch, pretty evenly split -- to use crude and somewhat useless political labels -- between Left and Right; our religious diversity includes Catholics, Mormons, evangelicals, United Church of Christ members ...

Hollywood families (at least in their writers' imagination) seem to have warm and fuzzy family Christmas dinners. Mine are more complex. Somehow, the relative morality ...

Poverty is affecting more and more people in today's distressed economy. And young adults are volunteering to work with the poor to help alleviate the imposing challenges they face. Some turn to formal volunteer service ...

"Thanksgiving Day is coming; gobble, gobble, gobble. Lets give thanks for this day!" These words are a remnant of the only song about Thanksgiving I remember ...

In response to a Massachusetts ballot question that would legalize physician-assisted suicide, Boston's Cardinal Seán O'Malley has encouraged the Catholic legal community to ...