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 ...

"I hope I'll get it as a gift for Solstice," said Andrea Bunch at a recent party when talking about a bottle of wine she had laid eyes on. ...

Two years ago, biblical scholars John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg published The Last Week, a fascinating day-by-day account, based on Mark's gospel, of how Jesus spent ...

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 ...

The Wall Street Journal called it "laudable." The New York Times called it "tragic." So what do I think of Mitt Romney's speech about religion in America last ...

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 ...

The Faith Between Us, by Peter Bebergal and Scott Korb, is the story of a failed Jewish mystic and a would-be Catholic priest who meet and become friends while ...

The prayers listed below were excerpted from: 100 Graces: Mealtime Blessings and represent a cross-section of thanksgiving prayers from a variety of faith traditions. Happy Thanksgiving ...

Brad Corrigan (aka Braddigan) certainly understands extremes. Dispatch, the trio he formed with college friends in the ...

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 ...

In his latest book, James Martin, SJ explores the work of a contemporary priest and exemplifies the quintessential Jesuit as cultured, literate believer who seeks to ...

Countless believers pride themselves on leading Bible-based lives, but let's face it: there's a big difference between donating to the Christian Children's ...

Some believe him to be the "Bard of Main Street USA." Throughout the six novels he has published since 1986, Richard Russo has created stories of small ...

Amir Hussain—who describes himself as a Pakistani-born Canadian Muslim and teaches theology at a Jesuit university in Los Angeles—is intent on spreading ...

As Pope John Paul II lay dying, thousands of pilgrims and other well-wishers gathered outside his window, offering prayers, hoping for a ...

In much of the hip hop music world the constant threat of menace and violence is simply a given. Few would argue that a large part of the music's appeal is deeply ...

To the people, they are courageous political activists. To the government, they are conniving political agitators. They have suffered unspeakable cruelty at the hands of a military regime while ...

Metanoia films' mission statement "to make films that matter and have the potential of making a meaningful difference in people's lives" is both lofty and laudable. To the ...

One December, when my fiancée and I were visiting her friend in New Haven, I found a wallet in the stairwell of a parking garage. It was thick with credit and ...

In the past decade Stephen Prothero, Chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University, has emerged as a national expert and ...